Speakers

Donald Jones, JD, MBA
Vice President, Business Development
Qualcomm, Inc.

Donald Jones serves as vice president of business development for Qualcomm Inc. In this role, he is responsible for leading Qualcomm's efforts to incorporate wireless technologies into the healthcare and medical devices markets. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Jones spent 22 years developing and growing healthcare enterprises. He served as chief operating officer of MedTrans, which is now American Medical Response, the world's largest emergency medical services provider. Jones also served as founder and chairman of EMME, Mexico's largest subscriber based health service, and senior vice president of marketing for HealthCap, at the time, the second largest provider of women's healthcare in the United States. Jones developed the $1 Billion Critical Care Transportation sector in the emergency medical services market, assisted in the strategy resulting in EMCARE that became the largest emergency medicine practice in the United States, and in the launching of American Medical Pathways, winner of a $600 Million healthcare call center contract.

In 1998, Donald Jones was appointed by the director of the National Highway and Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) to a panel of authors of the Federal Government's EMS Implementation Guide for the Future . In 2000, the Journal of Emergency Medical Services (JEMS) named Jones One of the 20 Most Influential People in EMS. Jones holds degrees in biology and bio-engineering from the University of California, San Diego, a Juris Doctorate from the University of San Diego, and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine.