About the contributor

• Bronwyn Jones

Bronwyn Jones

Bronwyn Jones, Professor of Radiology (1991) was born in Sydney, Australia, attended medical school in Sydney, graduated cum laude, and did four years of postgraduate training in Internal Medicine with a special interest in gastroenterology Boarded in Internal Medicine. Residency in Radiology at Kings College Hospital, London, UK., Fellowship in Radiology, St Thomas Hospital, London, UK. Boarded in Radiology in England and USA. Faculty at Harvard for six years, moved to Johns Hopkins in 1981 where she is now Professor of Radiology and Director of the Johns Hopkins Swallowing Center as well as Editor-in-Chief of Dysphagia, a multidisciplinary International journal. She was a Founding Member and is Past-President of the Dysphagia Research Society and Past President of the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists. Author of over 100 original scientific publications and over 50 chapters as well as the co-author of a book on gastrointestinal radiology and the editor of two monographs including one on computed tomography of the gastrointestinal tract and the other on normal and abnormal swallowing, the second edition of which has recently been published. Major research interests include swallowing disorders, GI disorders following bone marrow transplantation, GI infections in the immune compromised patient, applicability of computed tomography to the GI tract, inflammatory bowel disease and celiac disease. Special interests within dysphagia include pharyngoesophageal interrelationships, post-polio dysphagia, dysphagia and systemic disease, and psychogenic dysphagia.