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J. Stephen Jones, MD, FACS, is President and CEO of Inova, the leading nonprofit healthcare system in northern VA and the Washington DC area. A board-certified practicing urological surgeon, he is also a Professor of Urology at the University of Virginia. Inova has received “Straight A” ratings by Leapfrog since 2018, and in 2020 became the first and only large health system in America to have every hospital rated five stars by CMS.
Dr. Jones previously served as president of Cleveland Clinic Regional Hospitals and Family Health Centers. Before that he was department chair and held the Leonard Horvitz and Samuel Miller Distinguished Chair in Urologic Oncology, which has now been renamed the J. Stephen Jones Distinguished Chair, to be held in perpetuity by the sitting Cleveland Clinic Urology Department chair.
He earned a BS in Zoology at the University of Arkansas, his MD at UAMS, and MBA at Case Western Reserve University. After residency at Vanderbilt University, he joined the Springfield Clinic/St. John’s Health System in Missouri. Under his chairmanship the Department of Urological Surgery became the highest rated community urology program in America, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Dr. Jones is Editor-in-Chief of the American Urological Association journal Urology Practice and has published over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts and over 40 book chapters. He has previously been Editor of Urology & Kidney Disease News, Associate Editor for Urology as well as Renal & Urology News, and served on the editorial boards of British Journal of Urology and Urology Times. He has published two books and is editor of five medical textbooks.
Dr. Jones serves on the boards of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), Greater Washington Partnership, and Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce.
USA TODAY: Opinion: Prosecuting nurses like RaDonda Vaught for honest mistakes won't make patients safer
The Washington Post: Inova opens LGBTQ+ ‘pride clinic,’ a first for Northern Virginia
Modern Healthcare: Commentary: Tackling healthcare’s growing safety challenges starts with our workforce
NBC News: Pharmacists say 'pooling' Covid vaccines could save thousands of doses
The Washington Post: Fewer omicron-wave deaths so far in D.C., Maryland and Virginia belie hospital crisis
Becker’s Hospital Review: Commentary: If the frontline stops showing up, who will be there to care for the sick?
Modern Healthcare: Q&A: Inova CEO says early planning was key to getting ready for COVID-19 surge
Washington Business Journal: The surgeon general: CEO Stephen Jones is drafting his battle plan for Inova
Washington Business Journal: Inova is making structural changes. Here are the details.
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