Associate Professor
Departments of Medicine & Clinical Health and Epidemiology
Team Lead, Multidisciplinary IBD Clinical & Research Program
Dalhousie University
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre
Halifax, NS

Dr. Jennifer Jones obtained her MD and completed her internal medicine and gastroenterology fellowship training at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She then completed an advanced fellowship in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Following this she obtained her MSc in epidemiology while working at the IBD Clinic at the Foothills Medical Center in Calgary Alberta. After this she worked as an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon where she established the Multidisciplinary Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Program. Dr. Jones moved back to her home province of Nova Scotia where she serves as the medical lead of the Nova Scotia Collaborative Inflammatory Bowel Diseases program. She is currently as Associate Professor of Medicine within the Division of Digestive Care and Endoscopy within the Department of Medicine (DoM) and is Chair of the DoM Clinical Systems and Innovation Committee. She recently completed Implementation Science Certification training through the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and her research interests include implementation and evaluation of innovative models of healthcare delivery, patient oriented IBD research, and IBD outcomes research.