Kim D. Jones, R.N.C., Ph.D., F.N.P.
Associate Professor
Oregon Health & Science University
School of Nursing Portland Campus
3455 SW US Veterans Road, SN-ORD
Portland, Ore. 97239
Phone: 503 494-3837
E-mail: joneskim@ohsu.edu
Currently accepting Ph.D. students.
Kim Dupree Jones, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Schools of Nursing and assistant professor in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Ore. She is the principal investigator on over eight million dollars of research funding in fibromyalgia from the National Institutes of Health, foundations and industry. She has practices in the rheumatology clinic at Oregon Health & Science University evaluating and treating people with fibromyalgia. She is currently the president of the Fibromyalgia Information Foundation (www.myalgia.com), a non-profit organization whose aim for the past three decades has been to disseminate scientifically sound fibromyalgia data. She teaches primarily in the family nurse practitioner, Ph.D. and post-doctoral programs. She is passionate about mentoring the next generation of clinicians, scientists and scholars.TEACHING
Ph.D., post-doctoral program, Family Nurse Practitioner, Inter-professionalResearch
Fibromyalgia, Exercise, Pain, Women's Health, Yoga, Tai chi. Funded by NIH, Industry, FoundationsPractice Activities
Clinical Trials and RheumatologyService Activities
President, Fibromyalgia Information Foundation Pain Awareness & Information Network (P.A.I.N.)-Co-founder, OHSU Interprofessional Organization
Graduate Council, SON, member
FNP, PhD and DNP faculty
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
Jones, K.D. (2011). Nordic walking in fibromyalgia: a means of promoting fitness that is easy for busy clinicians to recommend. Arthritis Research & Therapy, 13:N. Invited editorial.Kindler, L.L., Jones, K.D., Perrin, N., & Bennett, R.M. (2010). Risk factors predicting the development of widespread pain from a chronic back or neck pain. Journal of Pain. 11(12): 1320-8. PMID:20488762
Mist, S.M., Wright, C.L., Jones, K.D., Carson, J.W. & Shih, J.C. (2010) Traditional Chinese medicine for fibromyalgia: An evidence based approach. Practical Pain Management.10(7):73-75
Nelson, D.V., Bennett, R.M., Barkhuizen, A., Sexton, G.J., Jones, K.D., Esty, M.L., Ochs, L.,
Donaldson, C.C.S. (2010). Neurotherapy of fibromyalgia? Pain Medicine. 11(6):912-9 PMID: 20624243
Ross, R., Jones, K.D., Ward, R.L., Bennett, R.M., Druker, B.J. Wood, L. (2010) Preliminary evidence of increased pain and elevated cytokines in fibromyalgia patients with defective
growth hormone response to exercise. Open Immunology Journal 3:9-18 PMID: 20467575
Paiva, E.S. & Jones, K.D. (2010). Rational treatment of fibromyalgia for a solo practitioner. Best Practices Research Clinical Rheumatology.24(3):341-52. PMID: 2053468
Elliott, D.L., Kuehl, K.W., Jones, K.D. & Dulacki, K. (2010). Using an eccentric exercise-testing
protocol to assess the beneficial effects of tart cherry juice in fibromyalgia patients. Integrative Medicine, 9(6), 24- 29.ISN:154393X
Wright, C.L., Mist, S.M., Ross, R.R. & Jones, K.D (2010) Duloxetine use in
fibromyalgia. Expert Reviews. PMID: 20828282 Reprinted in American Pain Society’s Pain Management News and Research, October 2010.
Carson, J.W., Carson, K.M., Jones, K.D., Bennett, R.M., Wright, C.L. & Mist, S., M. (2010). A randomized controlled clinical trial of the Yoga of Awareness program in the management of fibromyalgia. Pain. 151(2):530-9 PMID: 20946990
Ross, R., Jones, K.D., Wood, L.J., Ward, R.L., Bennett, R.M. (2010) Atypical depression is
more common than melancholic in fibromyalgia: an observational cohort study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 11:120.
Jones, K.D., Reiner, A. (2010). A multistep recruitment strategy for participant-intensive clinical trials. Applied Nursing Research.23(4):227-32 PMID: 21035033
Ross, R., Jones, K.D., Wood, L., Bennett, R.M. (2009) Preliminary evidence of increased pain
and elevated cytokines in fibromyalgia patients with defective growth hormone response to exercise. The Open Immunology Journal, 2:195-204.
Bennett, R.M., Friend, R., Jones, K.D., Ward, R., Han, B.K., Ross, R.L. (2009). The revised fibromyalgia impact questionnaire (FIQR): validation and psychometric properties. Arthritis Res Ther, 11(5): 415 PMID: 19849824


