Kimberly Jones, MD, a Huntsman Cancer Institute physician and investigator, is a clinical instructor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She is also a member of the Gastrointestinal Cancers Program. She is board certified in internal medicine, medical oncology, and board eligible in hematology.

Her research interests include investigating drug therapies that will be more effective in killing tumor cells and less harmful to normal cells, known as molecular targets. She is also interested in developing clinical trials with a translational focus in creating new ways to diagnose and treat gastrointestinal malignancies, particularly pancreatic cancer and colorectal cancer.

Jones received her medical degree from the University of Arizona in Tucson, completed her residency in internal medicine at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California, and completed a fellowship in hematology/oncology at the University of Utah. She earned the Vice President’s Award for Research from the American Academy of Otolaryngology and received the 2008 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Foundation Merit Award. She has lectured and published on numerous topics related to the lymphatic system and cancers of the colon, rectum, and pancreas.