R.S. Jones, M.D.
S. Hurt Watts Professor
Chairman of Department of Surgery 1981-2001
President, American College of Surgeons, 2001-2002
President of the American Surgical Association 2003-2004
Dr. R. Scott Jones

Clinical Interests
Cancer surgery, general surgery, liver surgery, biliary surgery,
intestinal surgery, colo-rectal surgery

Research Interests
  • Hepatobiliary physiology
  • Liver anatomy
  • GI hormones

Undergraduate and Medical Education
University of Texas, B.A. 1958
University of Texas, M.D., 1961

Postgraduate Medical Education
Intern in Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, 1961-1962
Assistant Resident in Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1962-1966
Fellow, Harrison Department of Surgical Research, University of Pennsylvania, 1964-1965
Basic Science Trainee, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1966-1967
Chief Resident in Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1966-1967
Clinical Fellow, American Cancer Society, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1966-1967
Fellow in Gastroenterology, Departments of Medicine and Physiology, University of California, LA, 1967-1968

Licensure
Commonwealth of Virginia
Texas
Drug Enforcement Administration

Board Certification
American Board of Surgery

Recent Publications
Jones RS, Brown C, Opelka F. Surgeon compensation: “Pay for performance,” the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, the Surgical Care Improvement Program, and other considerations. Surgery, November 2005, Vol. 138, No 5, pp 829-836.
Xu HS, Stevenson WC, Pruett TL, Jones RS. Donor lazaroid pretreatment improves viability of livers harvested from non-heart-beating rats. Am J Surg 1996 Jan;171(1):113-6; discussion 116-7.

Blackbourne LH, Jones RS, Catalano CJ, Iezzoni JC, Bourgeois FJ. Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma in the Pregnant Patient: case report and review of the literature. Cancer, Special Edition, 1997 May 1:79(9): 1776-9.

Jones RS. Forty years of open heart surgery then and now: a tribute to William H. Muller, Jr, MD. Ann Thorac Surg 1997 Nov;64(5):1531-2.

Yeaton P, Frierson HF Jr, Hittelet A, Duckworth C, DePrez C, Bourgeois N, Salmon I, Jones RS, Kiss R, Decaestecker C. Use of Image Cytometry To Classify Biliary and Ampullary Adenocarcinomas, Anal Quant Cytol Histol 1998 Dec; 20(6):509-16.

Jones RS: "Cancer Surgery for the General Surgeon", Lippincott-Raven Publishers, in production, 1998.

Address
Department of Surgery
PO Box 800709
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908-0709

Email
rsj@virginia.edu

Telephone
(434) 924-2000

Fax
(434) 924-1024