Donald Jones
Chief Digital Officer, Scripps, Co-founder, IMPACT
Donald Jones is a globally recognized leader in digital medicine, digital therapies, and virtual-first healthcare. He serves as Chief Digital Officer of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, collaborating with the renowned Eric Topol, MD, where they co-founded Scripps Digital Medicine, the world’s first digital health clinical trial center and the non-profit West Health Institute. In 2021, he founded IMPACT, the Virtual First Medical Practice Collaboration, in partnership with DiMe (Digital Medicine Society).
Donald Jones is a globally recognized leader in digital medicine, digital therapies and virtual-first healthcare. He is a sought out as a speaker, advisor and board member. He is an Operating Partner with Takeda Digital Ventures. Don has advised many Boards and executive suites of many companies including Dexcom, Resmed, Cepheid, Sanofi, Teva, Astra Zeneca, Genentech, Otsuka, Novo Nordisk and the Verily/Sanofi joint venture, Onduo. He is a Senior Advisor with both McKinsey & Co. and the GLG Institute. Jones serves as Chief Digital Officer of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, collaborating with the renowned Eric Topol, MD, where they co-founded Scripps Digital Medicine, the world’s first digital health clinical trial center and the non-profit West Health Institute, raising over $130 million. In 2021, Don founded IMPACT, the Virtual First Medical Practice Collaboration, in partnership with DiMe (Digital Medicine Society).
Don led Qualcomm Wireless Health Global Strategy. In 2005 he founded the international Wireless Life Sciences Alliance, merging it with HIMSS in 2016. Earlier in his career, Don was COO of MedTrans, in which he was instrumental in growing from $4.5 million into the largest emergency services provider in the world (now Global Medical Response), with over 38,000 EMS personnel, 7000 ambulances and 450 medical aircraft. He was Founder and Chair of EMME, Mexico's largest consumer membership healthcare provider and largest private practice. He helped build the largest medical group in the US, under the EmCare brand (now Envision Healthcare), with over 25,000 physicians. In 2014, EvoNexus recognized Donald Jones as Digital Health Innovator of the Year. Don conceived the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, a global competition for a consumer device which successfully makes 15 medical diagnoses. The XPRIZE was awarded in Hollywood in April 2017.