Kim Dupree Jones, PhD, RN, FNP, FAAN, is Dean and Professor of the Linfield University-Good Samaritan School of Nursing in Portland, Oregon, USA. Previously, Dr. Jones served as professor of nursing and medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and held faculty positions at University of Arizona at Tucson, the National College of Natural Medicine, Morehouse and Spellman Colleges and Georgia State University.

Dr. Dupree Jones’s research expertise is fibromyalgia, a chronic pain disorder that primarily affects women. She has completed 60 studies in fibromyalgia to date, backed by more than $9 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, foundations, industry and donors. Jones is the president of the Fibromyalgia Information Foundation, a non-profit organization whose aim for the past three decades has been to disseminate scientifically-sound fibromyalgia data. She has authored more than 100 publications in this area, and her work is cited in national and international fibromyalgia treatment guidelines and texts.

She holds PhD and post-doctoral degrees from OHSU, a Master’s in Nursing from Emory University and a BSN from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Jones has been a family nurse practitioner, most recently in the rheumatology clinic at OHSU and The Frida Center for Fibromyalgia. She has also served as a family nurse practitioner at the Centers for Disease Control, the Gwinnett County Detention Center, Ciba Vision, Planned Parenthood and Southside Health Care, among others.

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