The Bronwyn Jones, M.D. Professorship in Radiology

 

BRONWYN JONES was born in Sydney, Australia on November 30, 1943. She earned her medical degree from the University of South Wales School of Medicine, graduating cum laude. Of the medical school’s inaugural class, Bronwyn was one of only 30 students to graduate and one of only three women to do so. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine in 1968 and 1970 at Prince Henry Hospital, and her radiology residency at King’s College in London in 1974.

Dr. Jones then moved to the United States, where she was a member of the faculty at the Harvard University Medical School. In 1981, she was recruited to Johns Hopkins by Dr. Martin Donner, the then chairman of radiology. In 1990, Dr. Jones was promoted to full professor, becoming the 28th woman to achieve such rank at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Dr. Jones was a founding member and past president of the Dysphagia Research Society and past president of the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists. She was one of two archivists for the Dysphagia Research Society and authored more than 115 original research papers and over 60 book chapters. She co-authored three books, including one on normal and abnormal swallowing. Dr. Jones served as Director of the Johns Hopkins Swallowing Center and as Editor-Emeritus of the journal, Dysphagia until her retirement in 2015.

In retirement, Dr. Jones continued her relationship with Johns Hopkins, establishing the Bronwyn Jones, M.D. Professorship in Radiology. It is the department’s first named professorship for a female faculty member and will support a faculty member focused in diagnostics who embodies Johns Hopkins Medicine’s tripartite mission of education, research, and clinical care.