A graduate of the University of Panama Medical School, she completed her residency at Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and completed an Electrodiagnostic Medicine Fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Jones served as an Assistant Professor at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. During this time, she was the Director of the Electrodiagnostic Medicine Laboratory and taught PMR residents how to perform Electrodiagnostic tests. She has also conducted extensive research that has been published in medical journals to include subjects ranging from Neurotoxicology to dysfunction in the nervous system following spinal cord injuries.