Dr. Whitney Jones is a Gastroenterologist, formerly Clinical Professor of Medicine, and an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health and Information Services at the University of Louisville. He is a founding member and currently serves as Chair of the Kentucky Colon Cancer Screening and Prevention Program Advisory Committee serving the un-and underinsured. He is a 2020-21 alumnus of the City of Hope Intensive Course in Hereditary Cancer Risk Assessment and currently serves on the National Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Round Table’s Family History and Early Age Onset CRC Task Force.

In 2003 he founded and remains active in the Colon Cancer Prevention Project, a leading colorectal cancer (CRC) information and advocacy organization focused on the innovative acceleration of screening including emerging biotech and logistics. A major focus of the “Project” is advocacy around pragmatic state-based laws that lower barriers to access evidence- based CRC screening. Kentucky is the first state in the nation to mandate no cost-sharing coverage for preventative evidence-based genetic panel testing for hereditary cancers including Lynch Syndrome. These laws have resulted in Kentucky having the lowest barriers for CRC screening in the nation. Kentucky has since more than doubled its screening rates (now 69.7%) and reduced CRC deaths by a third.

Dr. Jones joined the Grail Team in 2021 to advance multi-cancer early detection technology through education, policy, and clinical pathways.