Warren A. Jones, MD, DHL(Hon), FAAFP, Family Physician and Adolescent Medicine Specialist. He graduated from Dillard University in New Orleans, LA, the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans, and retired as a Captain, U.S. Navy Medical Corps with over 28 year of service. He served as the 54th President of the AAFP from 2001 – 2002 and is currently the Chief Health Officer for the Jones Group of Mississippi. He was an Associate Vice Chancellor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) and a Professor Emeritus after having been a Distinguished Professor of Health Policy, Professor of Family Medicine and a Professor of Anesthesiology Research, and the Founding Executive Director of the Mississippi Minority Health Research Institute.

He ran the Mississippi Medicaid Program and was responsible for providing access to care for over 760,000 indigent Mississippians. He served a Medical Director and Medicare/Medicaid Subject Matter Expert at Provider Resources, Inc. He has previously served as the NIH Endowed Chair in Health Disparities Research at Dillard University and the Chief Health Officer at Hampton University where he was the Founding Director of the Center for Caribbean Health Research and Principal Investigator for the Minority Men’s Health Initiative within the Hampton University Regional Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center. He served as a Trustee at his alma mater, Dillard University. He is Chair Emeritus in the Family Medicine Section of the National Medical Association and is Board President for the Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi. He was selected as the Outstanding Black Educator by Mississippi’s Board of Higher Education. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by the Historic Tougaloo College, recently inducted into the National Historically Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in Medicine and awarded the Distinguished Leader in Science and Medicine by the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity at its Centennial Ceremonies.