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Dr. Leah Jones is the Chief of Staff of the Beckley VA Medical Center. Dr. Leah Jones has been with the VA for six years, the entirety of which she has spent at the Beckley VAMC.  She

graduated from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering in 1998 and worked as a Process Engineer, Research Engineer, Project Engineer, and First Line Supervisor in

her careers with Dow and DuPont.  After a career in Chemical Engineering, she returned to Medical School at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) in 2006 and graduated in

2010.  Dr. Jones graduated from a dually accredited Internal Medicine residency which she completed at West Virginia University’s Ruby Memorial Hospital in 2013.  She spent two years in an

outpatient and inpatient practice while maintaining a faculty teaching position at WVSOM.  She then became a full-time academic Hospitalist in 2015.  She joined the Beckley VAMC in 2018 as a

Hospitalist and became the Chief of the Acute Care Service Line (ACSL) in 2020.  During her time as Chief of ACSL, Dr. Jones as part of her dual roles, spent three years as the Medical

Officer on Incident Command; her duties included but were not limited to researching and studying COVID-19, its pathophysiology and treatment, providing guidance and direction to the

facility strategic initiative to address patient and employee practice guidelines and processes, and the guidelines related to the COVID-19 vaccine.  In addition to her roles at Beckley

VAMC, she serves as the Medical Officer for Emergency Management and the Designated Education Officer, providing oversight to all the student and residency programs at the Beckley VAMC.  She

has three daughters, all of whom are either proud Mountaineer alumni or current West Virginia University students.