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About Dysphagia Mobile Imaging, Inc.
We are planning rapid growth throughout the Southeast and we are helping others get started across the country!
We need qualified full and part-time personnel:
Speech-language Pathologists
Physicians
(any specialty)
Billing & coding
Logistics and scheduling, and
Mechanical and maintenance personnel.
Contact us if you are interested in joining our team.
The founders of DMI are Drs. Jennifer and Gordon Jones.
Based upon years of health services and business experience, the Joneses realized that there is a great need in the Augusta
area, and across the country for that matter, for providing dysphagia consulting and especially MBSS services via a mobile
clinic setting. So while on their honeymoon they not only enjoyed their personal time together, they also developed the plan
to start up DMI together.
The clinical portions of the company are driven by Jennifer and the business aspects
are directed by Gordon. As they developed their business plan, they realized the greater need for these services throughout
the whole United States, thus the creation of the American Mobile Dysphagia Imaging Association.
In conjunction
with building DMI throughout Georgia and South Carolina, they wish to help like minded professionals in other parts of the
country network and get started providing these services as well.
 Jennifer
Jones, PhD
Chief Clinical Officer and Founder
An ASHA certified Speech-Language Pathologist
and ACE recipient with over 12 years experience in the field of dysphagia, Dr. Jones earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Deaf
Education and Elementary Education from Converse College in 1992. Dr. Jones completed her Masters in Speech Pathology (M.S.P.)
in 1996 and her Ph.D. in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in 2003 from the University of South Carolina. Dr. Jones spent her first 5 years as a speech-language pathologist working with adult
and pediatric populations in the hospital in-patient, out-patient and in-home settings. She worked with a variety of disabilities
including, head-neck cancer, stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI), dysphagia, receptive and expressive language disorders
and hearing impaired. She ventured into private practice in January of 2001 by founding Therapeutic Interventions of Georgia,
Inc., which has grown exponentially over the past 7 years. Dr. Jones primarily works with children who have oral-motor, feeding
and swallowing impairments. She has extensive training with cochlear implants, sensory disorders and feeding problems. Prior to her pediatric practice, Dr. Jones worked with all ages and especially the
elderly through her work with St. Joseph’s Hospital. She has also consulted privately with nursing facilities building
speech-language programs and Alzheimer’s units. Dr.
Jones was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South
Carolina for 6 years where she taught Adult and Child Dysphagia. She resigned from academia in order to grow her private practice,
develop continuing education courses, and complete the 2nd edition of her book. Dr. Jones is a lecturer for local and state conferences on pediatric feeding and
swallowing disorders. She created a local conference on interdisciplinary evaluation and treatment of feeding and swallowing
disorders titled the "Eatin' Meetin.'" Dr.
Jones is also the author of "As They Grow: Motor Development from Birth to Six" in its 2nd edition.
Gordon Jones, DHA
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Dr. Jones has been providing healthcare consulting services internationally for 17 years. Prior to going out on his
own, Dr. Jones served as an internal consultant for the business development and strategy team at NDC Health in Atlanta, a leading international health information
management company (now a part of McKesson). In the mid 90s Dr. Jones lead the entrée into the Southeast for the
3rd largest publicly traded physician practice management company. Some of Dr. Jones’ international work includes designing the deployment
strategy for a heart monitoring telemedicine network for the country of Indonesia. He also assisted an Australian technology
company deploying the World’s first imaged guided computer assisted dental surgical system utilizing CT and Infrared
technologies through their US subsidiary company, and he continues to consult with an Israeli biotech firm developing an in-vitro diagnostic blood screening
technology for the early detection of Ovarian and Breast Cancers. Additionally,
Dr. Jones has 4 plus years of direct health system management experience and 11 years of military experience from The Citadel
and time in the US Army, 82nd Airborne Division stationed at Fort Bragg, NC. Dr.
Jones is an Adjunct Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. He has published original research and review articles on healthcare
management and technology issues, and is the creator of the “Staging Innovation in Healthcare”©
process. His doctoral research focused on the issue of eHealth Consumerism and the adoption of the Internet in the physician
practice. Dr. Jones is a graduate of The Citadel, the University of South Carolina, and MUSC in Charleston where he completed both a Master’s and
Doctorate in Health Administration.
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