David Jones, MD, FAAFP has recently transitioned from the position of President and Director of Medical Education for The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) to President Emeritus and voting member of the Board of Directors of the IFM. His area of expertise within the IFM is the focus on the therapeutic partnership and the importance of the transition within primary care to the development of healing relationships. Dr. Jones is presently in his fourth year as a Scholar at The Institute for Integrative Health