He has been the Research Director for the Emergency Medicine program for the past 25 years. Dr. Jones was awarded the "Excellence in Teaching" award from the Michigan Chapter of EMRA as well as the EMRA's National award in 1994. He has served as an investigator on 30 grants, 190 scientific papers and over 250 national and international research presentations. Dr. Jones is active in research related to virtually all aspects of emergency medicine, including geriatrics, pediatrics, trauma, alcoholism, resuscitation, sexual assault, EMS, simulation, infectious disease, and ultrasound medicine. He is a reviewer for the Annals of Emergency Medicine, American Journal of Emergency Medicine as well as Academic Emergency Medicine.