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EDUCATION:

My childhood goals to play and coach basketball were expanded by encyclopedias and a chemistry set

Marshall County KY, Public Schools,

  • 1945-1946: First grade, Jackson, a one-room, 8 grade school  ​

  • 1946-1956: 2nd to 10th grades, at Brewers a1-12th school 

  • 1956-1958 South Marshall Highschool, a 9-12 school, Graduated

Murray State College 

  • 1958-1961, Dropped Physical Education courses

  • Graduated with an "Area in Sciences" BS degree

  • Tulane University, Medical School

  • 1961-1965, Graduated with a Medical Doctor degree

Tripler Hospital, Honolulu, HI

  • 1965-1966, Rotating Medica Internship 

Letterman Hospital - University of California Medical Center San Francisco 

  • 1966-1969, Residency in Dermatology

CAREERS:

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Murray State College,

  • 1961, Instructor, Chemistry, summer school

US Army,

  • Army Reserve 1962-1964, 2nd Lt.

  • US Army Active Duty Training Years, 1964-1969 1st Lt. to Major

  • 95th Evacuation Hospital, Danang Vietnam, 1969-1970,

  • Lieutenant Colonel

  • Letterman Army Institute of Research, Lt. Colonel Assistant Commander, 1971-1973

  • US Army Inactive Reserve 1973-1990, Lt. Colonel to Colonel, considered for B. General

Academic Medicine (published >100 papers in the scientific literature)

  • Instructor Dermatology, UCSF Medical School, San Francisco, CA 1969-1973

  • Head, Infection and Immunology Division, Letterman Army Institute of Research; San Francisco, CA 1969-1973

  • Instructor, Clinical Faculty, Stanford University School of Medicine,

    • Palo Alto, CA 1971-1973

  • University of Michigan Medical School; Assistant Professor of Dermatology,

    • Ann Arbor, MI 1973-1976

  • Emory University Medical School, Atlanta, GA 1976-1984,

    • Associate Professor, then

    • Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology

  • University of South Alabama Medical School,

    • Clinical Professor of Medicine (Dermatology)

    • Mobile AL, 1984-1994,

Private Practice of Medicine, Dermatology

  • Fairhope, Alabama 1984-1994

  • Roseburg, Oregon 1995-2004

Wine Industry

  • Abacela Vineyards and Winery, Roseburg, OR, 1994-2021

  • Founder, Owner, Viticulturist,& Enologist, 

  • Retired in 2021, to become COB,

  • Appointed, Greg Jones (our son), CEO of Abacela.

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Richardson Hall Tulane University

Abacela Vineyards by Curtis Jones

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