Eileen Jones

Experience

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  American Red Cross Bay Area

  Aug 1998 - now

  Disaster Nurse Specialist, Contra Costa County Disaster Health Services

  Provides disaster health care services to families and individuals affected by local, state, and national disasters, such as house fires, wild fires, floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes.Instruction, orientation, and mentoring to new members.Leadership positions have included State Nurse Liaison and Chapter Disaster Health Services Director.

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  American Red Cross

  Aug 1998 - now

  Disaster Nurse Specialist
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  Miles for Migraine Races, Youth Camps, Headache Disorders Seminars, Community Support Groups

  Jan 2008 - now

  Founder and Past President: Miles for Migraine Races and Youth Camps

  Miles for Migraine Races, a 2 mile walk/5K/10K run, was founded to:1. Raise public awareness about the problems of headache disorders, especially migraine, and the dearth of funding from the National Institutes of Health for research into their prevention, cause, and treatment. Less than 1/2 of 1% of the NIH budget is allocated to migraine research.2. Donate proceeds to fund physician fellowships in headache disorders at major medical centers.3. Build a community among headache sufferers, their families, friends, and other individuals who care to make a difference. Show less

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  Miles for Migraine Races

  Jan 2008 - now

  Founder and Past President

  Founder of 501c3 organization, produces competitive races to raise public awareness aboutthe critical need for headache disorder research funding from NIH, and raises and donates funds directly to headache specialist fellowships in major medical centers to support their research efforts.Miles for Migraine Race/Walk events are in more than twenty cities. All are welcome, if only to watch and be inspired.Miles for Migraine Youth Camps, begun in June, 2014, in San Francisco, offer a day camp for teenssuffering from chronic migraine. Camps are held several times a year in several US cities.Miles for Migraine Patient Education Days in numerous cities across the country.Consult milesformigraine.org for schedules and further information. Show less