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clinics and on consultation services. His student evaluations are always in the “very good” range

and his scores are above faculty means.

Dr. Jones has served as faculty adviser for 7 graduate students during the last 5 years. All of these

students have successfully completed their training and 6 are presently on the faculty of

university research centers.

He has also participated extensively in developing the pulmonary curriculum for medical

students through his role as chair of the committee to revise curriculum for the Year I Medical

Respiratory course. He has incorporated into this curriculum new elements of pathology,

embryology, outcomes, and imaging with more traditional elements of anatomy and physiology.

He is considered by his colleagues to be a gifted educator. Dr. Jones also reorganized and won

initial ACGME accreditation for the critical care fellowship at MUSC.

Dr. Jones lectures extensively at CME programs throughout South Carolina. He has been visiting

professor at 5 academic centers within the last three years. He also has been an invited speaker at

5 annual meetings of his international professional societies.

Research

Dr. Jones’s research efforts have focused on respiratory physiology and the control of breathing.

His salary has been fully support by extramural grants from the NIH for 5 of the last 6 years. Dr.

Jones’s most important research accomplishments relate to his innovative use of noninvasive

imaging technology to assess the respiratory effort of critically ill patients undergoing mechanical

ventilation. His basic understanding of respiratory physiology and his considerable collaborative

efforts with radiology colleagues at Duke have allowed him to adapt diverse imaging tools to

pursue questions of ventilatory drive. This ability to develop skills in different fields has made

Dr. Jones a unique resource for investigators in several departments at MUSC. His collaboration

with other investigators has been a critical element in their ability to receive extramural funding.

Dr. Jones has also assumed leadership in our department for encouraging his colleagues in their

investigative efforts. Three of our junior faculty collaborate extensively with Dr. Jones in

investigations related to respiratory physiology. On of these faculty is now poised to become an

independent investigator.

Scholarly Publications

Dr. Jones’s has published extensively in his field of investigation. He has 42 peerreviewed

publications in major journals in pulmonary, critical care, and physiology. Five of his

publications have been cited in the Cochrane Collaboration of systematic reviews. During the

last 5 years, Dr. Jones has been able to publish 8 papers generated by his two most recent grants

that pertain to imaging assessment of respiratory drive. These papers have stimulated interest in

our training program from fellow candidates interested in applied physiology research and

academic careers. His clinical reviews of these topics have also generated interest in practitioners

within South Carolina of applying some of his patient monitoring observations to clinical

practice. Of note is his mentoring of research students and graduate students in his publications.

He has a recently increasing proportion of publications for which he is senior author and the first

authors are trainees in his laboratory. Dr. Jones's academic efforts have reached a degree of

maturity that provides the University with multiple levels of benefit that merits tenure.

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