Bridgette L. Jones, MD MS holds a faculty appointment as Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (UMKCSOM) in the divisions of Allergy/Asthma/Immunology and Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Innovation and at Children’s Mercy and the Marion Merrell Dow Chair/ Missouri Chair in Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology at Children’s Mercy Hospital. She is a clinician scientist with a focus in therapeutics and interventions to improve the lives of children with asthma and is particularly interested in addressing asthma disparities that impact children. She holds funding thru the National Institutes of Health via multiple sources and has also received other extramural and intramural resources to support her work.

At the UMKCSOM she serves as the Assistant Academic Dean of Student Affairs. Nationally, Dr. Jones is the immediate past Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Drugs and the immediate past chair of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma Immunology’s Asthma Cough Diagnosis and Treatment Committee. She is currently a member of the National Nominating Committee of the AAP (ending January 2025). She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Allergy Asthma and Clinical Immunology in Practice. She also serves on the Food and Drug Administration Pediatric Advisory Committee and previously served on the National Institutes of Health Task Force on Research Specific to Pregnant Women and Lactating Women. She is wife to Rafiq and mother to Lola and Nora.