Kenneth Lyons Jones MD

Dr. Kenneth Lyons Jones is a world-renowned pediatrician, dysmorpholog,y and researcher in the field of birth defects. He is a distinguished professor and chief of the Division of Dysmorphology and Teratology in the Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego.

Dr. Jones is actively involved in research, clinical services, training and education, and policy focused on the clinical delineation, diagnosis, and prevention of adverse pregnancy outcomes and birth defects resulting from environmental exposures. He is also the founder and medical director of MotherToBaby California, a teratogen information service that provides women and clinicians individualized assessments regarding the safety of exposures in pregnancy and lactation.

Dr. Jones has authored over 250 publications in scientific journals and is the author of Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation, now in its 7th edition. Dr. Jones is a former president of the Western Society for Pediatric Research, the Teratology Society, and the Organization of Teratology Information Specialists and is currently a member of the Association of American Physicians.