Dr. Jones is an Assistant Professor in the Schools of Nursing and Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR.

Her undergraduate degree in nursing is from the University of Tennessee, her masters and nurse practitioner degrees are from Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and her PhD is from Oregon Health & Science University.

Her area of expertise is exercise physiology and neuroendocrinology in fibromyalgia. She is the principal investigator on over two million dollars of research funding in fibromyalgia from the National Institutes of Health.

She has also been a principal investigator or co-investigator on 12 other fibromyalgia research studies, mostly in collaboration with her colleagues on the Oregon Fibromyalgia Research and Treatment Team.

She has 42 publications and is a frequently invited speaker for patients, clinicians and researchers investigating fibromyalgia. She maintains a weekly clinical practice at Oregon Health & Science University in which she evaluates and treats people with fibromyalgia.