Kirk D. Jones, M.D.

Pathologist

Dr. Kirk Jones is a pathologist in surgical pathology and cytopathology. Pathology is the study of disease and involves examining tissue removed during surgery or biopsy to make diagnoses and guide patient care. Jones has a special expertise in pulmonary, or lung, pathology and is responsible for the examining all tissue biopsies for UCSF's Interstitial Lung Disease Program. He also examines lungs removed during surgery for the lung transplant program, and evaluates all post-transplant lung biopsies for signs of infection or rejection of the transplanted lung. He is the primary pathologist for the Thoracic Interdisciplinary Tumor Board and an associate professor of pathology at the UCSF School of Medicine.

Jones earned a medical degree at UCSF and did a combined residency here, in anatomic pathology and laboratory medicine. His fellowship in cytopatholgy was also completed at UCSF. After his fellowship, he was a visiting scholar at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he studied pulmonary pathology with Dr. Thomas V. Colby and Dr. Kevin O. Leslie. He is a member of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Pulmonary Pathology Society, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, College of American Pathologists and South Bay Pathology Society.

• Connective Tissue Disease-Associated ILD
• Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis

• Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
• Sarcoidosis

Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy Clinic
1600 Divisadero St., Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-7043
Fax: (415) 353-7676

Hours: Monday to Friday
9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Interstitial Lung Disease Program
400 Parnassus Ave., Fifth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-2577
Fax: (415) 353-2568

Hours: Friday
8 a.m. – noon