Dr. Gordon Jones is a former healthcare executive turned techie. After graduating from The Citadel and serving two tours in the 82nd Airborne Div USA, he earned his Masters and Doctorate in Health Administration from the Medical University of South Carolina.
For his doctoral research, he studied the movement of patients from a personal primary care doctor to a new doctor specifically because the new would communicate with them through internet based tools such as online messaging, scheduling, and access to medical reports.
“It’s is a shame that over 20 years later we still have a long way to go.” Dr. Jones 2021
Dr. Jones is a Fellow to the iSchool and Entrepreneur-in-Residence of the College of Information and Communications at the University of South Carolina where teaches Blockchain in Information Sciences, Data Privacy, and Self Sovereign Identity. His latest startup is Validide Corporation he started with two USC students/alumni. Through their Thrivacy digital wallet they are helping individuals take control of their personal identity information through the use of decentralized identity based technologies. He is a contributor to the Trust Over Internet Protocol (ToIP) Foundation, the Linux Public Health Foundation, the Covid Credentials Initiative, and the international collaboration of the Good Health Pass all under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation. He is also a member and contributor to the Velocity Network Foundation bringing verifiable credentials through a decentralized DLT model for employers and employees.
Dr. Jones is also an accomplished athlete being a member of a 4A State Soccer champion, triathlete, tennis enthusiast, and member of the US Men’s Masters Beach Ultimate Team winning Silver in 2004 & Gold in 2007 at the World Championships, Dr. Jones is a biohacker focused on combining Farm to Table All Natural Organic foods with Nutrigenomics and regular exercise to maximize cellular metabolism and nutrient absorption.
"We don’t want to just lengthen our Lifespans, we want to increase our Healthspan for Longevity, even dying healthy." Dr. Jones
All this experience was recently rolled up into his latest book, How to Createyourself, which attained international bestseller status on Amazon within the week of publication.
With his wife, Dr. Jennifer Jones, they have adopted 5 special children and founded ApparoAcademy.org, a non-profit pre-school for medically fragile children through an innovative integrated inclusive model preparing