Miles J. Jones
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Miles James Jones | |
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| Born | November 22, 1952 |
| Died | February 9, 2013 (age 60) Liberty, MO, USA |
| Citizenship | US |
Miles James Alfred Jones, Jr., M.D. (22 November 1952 – 9 February 2013) was a forensic pathologist who became one of the most notorious physician-abusers of internet-mediated services.[1] He was also cited for contempt of the U.S. Congress for failure to appear before it concerning his activities in the sale of fetal body parts.[2] He was eventually imprisoned in the Federal Corrections System for failure to pay U.S. income taxes for two years.[3]
Miles Jones was raised in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, and he attended public schools there. Jones matriculated to Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) and graduated from that institution with a B.S. degree in Biology in 1973. He then attended Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., and was granted the M.D. degree in 1977.[4]
Postgraduate training
Jones completed a one-year clinical internship in general surgery at the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH), and then entered the residency program in anatomic and clinical pathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He completed his 4-year course of training in 1982 and was certified by the American Board of Pathology.[4] Even during his residency, Miles demonstrated a thirst for public attention, exemplified by his notification of the national media that he was going to present a "landmark" study on toxic-shock syndrome at a semiannual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Pathology in 1982.[5]
Employment
Jones secured a position in the section of Gynecological & Breast Pathology at the U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, where he worked as a junior staff pathologist for two years. He left to accept one in a series of hospital-practice positions in general pathology, which included jobs in Washington, D.C.; Herrin, Illinois; Atlanta, Georgia; Nashville, Tennessee; and Lee's Summit, Missouri. During this time, Jones also obtained training and certification in forensic pathology.[6]