Paul M Jones,MD, MAT, is a child, adolescent and psychosomatic medicine psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Georgetown School of Medicine.    A graduate of the University of Vermont Medical School, Dr. Jones completed his general psychiatry training at the University of Massachusets in Worcester Mass, Child Psychiatry training at NYU and Bellevue Hospital in NY City, and his psychosomatic medicine fellowship in the joint program with Georgetown, the NIH, and Washington Hospital Center.   Dr.Jones's primary clinical and teaching interests are: 1) life threatening medical treatment non-adherence; 2)  medically unexplained physical symptoms that interfere significantly with daily functioning; and 3) psychiatric comorbidity with chronic medical illness such as diabetes, Crohn’s, Lupus, cancer, Parkinson's, MS, disabling chronic pain, and the like.   He also has particular interests in pediatric palliative care and medical family therapy, addressing ways that chronic medical illness affects the entire family, and vice-versa.  

A long-time meditator, Dr Jones is deeply interested in the interface between medicine and mindfulness.  He directs Medstar Georgetown’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program (MBSR), an 8-week, evidence based program offered year-round here at Georgetown, that teaches mindfulness skills to patients, health care providers, and the general public.