Karra Jones received her MD and PhD from the University of Kansas School of Medicine, where she examined peripheral nerve innervation of muscle spindles in the setting of diabetic neuropathy in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology.
She completed her combined Anatomic and Neuropathology residency and fellowship at the University of California, San Diego, and became board certified in AP and NP. She then practiced diagnostic neuropathology, led the neuromuscular pathology service, and assisted in biorepository and biomarker laboratory efforts at UCSD.
Before her appointment at Duke, Jones was a Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Iowa where she expanded her neuromuscular expertise and continued to practice neurosurgical, autopsy, and forensic neuropathology.
Jones loves teaching trainees of all levels and has received multiple teaching awards. Her research interests include inherited muscular dystrophies and myopathies, and she is a consultant for muscular dystrophy and myopathy gene therapy clinical trials.
Jones is very active in the American Association of Neuropathologists and is a member of the College of American Pathologists Neuropathology Committee. We are very excited to have Jones joining our neuropathology division.