Medical Expert Services

Dr. Jones is a board-certified emergency and addiction medicine physician, and has treated more than 70,000 patients during a 20-year career in medicine. He is a graduate of the Emergency Medicine Residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and Addiction Medicine Fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Jones provides medical expert consultation services to the legal community on issues related to addiction medicine and emergency medicine.

Areas of interest: expert witness retention & litigation, consultative reviews/case clinics, certificates/affidavits of merit, independent medical examinations, alcohol and drug use, drug testing, medical malpractice, addiction medicine, co-occurring legal issues such as intoxication, cognitive effects of drugs, wrongful death, violent crime, inappropriate use of prescription medications, gambling addiction, disease model of addiction, food addiction, Internet addiction, psychoactive substance, withdrawal, sex addiction, dual diagnosis, detoxification, rehabilitation, co-occurring psychiatric disorders, buprenorphine, impaired professionals (attorneys, physicians, business executives).

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Special Skills:

• Proficiency in communicating the interplay between law, brain science, and the art of medicine
• Consultation provided for both sides of the bar in civil and criminal matters

Credibility:

• 15 years of clinical experience as an emergency and addiction medicine physician providing direct patient care
• Retained as an expert witness in multiple states

Communication Skills:

• Experienced in deposition and testimony
• Skilled in communicating complicated issues to the layperson
• Prompt follow-up with law firms