Dr. Jones-Hall was a graduate scholar in the NCI Molecular Pathology GPP in partnership with Michigan State University and the National Cancer Institute, from 2004-2006 and 2007-2010.
Dr. Jones-Hall obtained a bachelors of arts from Talladega College in 1999 and her doctorate of veterinary medicine from Tuskegee University in 2003. She pursued an anatomic pathology residency at Michigan State University. In 2004, she was accepted into the NCI Molecular Pathology Graduate Partnership Program to continue her graduate course work and training as a diagnostic pathologist at MSU. Captain Jones interrupted her Cancer Research Training Award training at MSU from 2006-2007 to deploy to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom with the United States Army Veterinary Corps. Following active duty, she returned to the program to pursue her Ph.D. dissertation research in the Cancer and Inflammation Program, Center for Cancer Research, at the National Cancer Institute located in Frederick, MD. Dr. Jones-Hall’s research topic involved studying the role of Tumor Necrosis Factor-α in the development and propagation of chemically induced colitis and colon cancer using mouse models. Her NIH principal investigator (PI) mentor was Giorgio Trinchieri, M.D. Her graduate committee members included: Dr. Trinchieri, Matti Kiupel, Dr. Med. Vet, Ph.D., Diplomate, The American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Vilma Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan, Ph.D., Alison Bauer, Ph.D., and Mark Simpson, D.V.M., Ph.D., Diplomate, The American College of Veterinary Pathologists. Dr. Jones-Hall received an appointment as an assistant professor at Purdue University. In 2017, Dr. Jones-Hall became a tenured Associate Professor at Purdue University. She is now an Associate Professor in the Veterinary Pathobiology Department at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX where she serves as the director of the histology and histopathology core laboratory in the college of veterinary medicine and biomedical sciences.
