Associate Professor

Dr. Kirk Jones is a Professor of Pathology at the University of California San Francisco. He did his undergraduate work at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and graduated from UCSF Medical School in 1994. During his medical school training, he was introduced to pathology and participated in the post-sophomore fellowship program under the directorship of Dr. Linda Ferrell. He did his pathology residency training at UCSF and continued there with a surgical pathology fellowship. He completed a cytopathology fellowship under the direction of Drs. Ted Miller, Britt-Marie Ljung, Doug Hanks, and Tere Darragh. He obtained additional training in pulmonary pathology as a visiting scholar at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale Arizona, learning from Drs. Tom Colby and Kevin Leslie.

Although Dr. Jones was cajoled by a senior faculty member to pursue pulmonary pathology, he now finds it delightful. He has given lectures and courses throughout the world, lecturing at the World Conference on Lung Cancer, the Pulmonary Pathology Society Biennial meetings, USCAP annual meetings, the American Thoracic Society International Conference, and the American College of Chest Physicians annual meetings. He was the pathologist for the visiting team of interstitial lung disease experts at the Guangzhou Institute for Respiratory Disease in 2016. He has authored over 125 peer-reviewed publications and several book chapters, some of which are decent reading. He is on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Surgical Pathology, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Histopathology.