Dr. Jones primary clinical interests include pediatric psychosomatic medicine, family-centered psychiatry, and mindfulness-based interventions in both general medicine and psychiatry. Dr. Jones specializes in treating children, adolescents and adults living with major medical illness, as well as patients with significant medically unexplained physical symptoms.
In addition to teaching in Georgetown's child and adolescent, psychosomatic and general psychiatry programs, Dr. Jones directs and teaches in Georgetown's mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) course. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Vermont College of Medicine, he completed training in general psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, child and adolescent psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, and psychosomatic medicine at Georgetown. Dr. Jones is a graduate of the two-year Meditation Teacher Training Institute (MTTI), sponsored by the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW), and was trained in teaching MBSR at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA.