Biography of Judith A. Jones, MD, FAAP, FASA

Dr. Jones is a Pediatric Anesthesiologist at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware, and is an Assistant Professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Dr. Jones earned her Bachelor of Science (Hons) and Medical Degrees from the University of the West Indies at the Mona Campus in Kingston, Jamaica. She completed internship in Jamaica and worked as a House Officer in Anesthesiology at the Bustamante Children’s Hospital and the Kingston Public Hospital. She then completed Anesthesiology Residency training at the University of South Florida. This was followed by Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship training at the University of Miami. She is board certified in General and Pediatric Anesthesiology. 

Dr. Jones is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA), the Delaware Society of Anesthesiologists (DSA), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Florida Medical Association (FMA). She practices primarily at Nemours Children’s Hospital Delaware and has special interest in work related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. She is currently a Co-Director of the Anesthesiology Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Nemours Children’s Hospital Delaware and has been involved in pipeline programs for the recruitment of under-represented minority high school and college students into healthcare-related careers for over a decade, as well as mentoring Residents and Medical students from under-represented groups. Her outreach work with Nemours takes her to her native country of Jamaica, where she has led the Anesthesiology team since 2018 at the Bustamante Hospital for Children performing Living- Related Donor Liver Transplants for pediatric patients from Jamaica and the Caribbean, who would otherwise succumb to the effects of end-stage liver disease.