Pediatrics CertifiedStacie Jones, MD

Dr. Stacie M. Jones, M.D. is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Hospital. Dr. Jones is also a researcher at the Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute.

Dr. Jones received her medical degree in 1989 from the University of Arkansas for Medical Science and completed her Pediatrics residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Hospital in 1992. She completed Allergy and Immunology Fellowship training at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She joined the faculty of UAMS in 1994.

Dr. Jones treats patients with allergic and immunologic disorders including asthma, food allergy, atopic dermatitis, allergic rhinitis, drug allergy, eosinophilic esophagitis, and primary immunodeficiency. Her research focuses on both clinical and translational investigation of food allergy and eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders, in particular in finding new therapies and improving understanding of disease. Dr. Jones also has a long-standing research interest in asthma and lung disease.

Dr. Jones is a member of many professional societies including the American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatric Academic Society, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the American Thoracic Society and serves on the medical advisory board of the Food Allergy Research and Education organization. She has published multiple scientific manuscripts, review articles and book chapters and enthusiastically contributes to the education of residents and medical students at UAMS.

Stacie M. Jones, M.D. is Professor of Allergy and Immunology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH). She is a board-certified Specialist in Pediatrics and Allergy and Immunology, and currently serves as Director of the Food Allergy Program and Co-Director of the Lung Cell Biology Laboratory at the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI). 

Her research focuses on both clinical and translational investigation of food allergy, eosinophilic esophagitis and asthma.  Dr. Jones is the principal investigator at ACRI for the both the NIH-funded Consortium for Food Allergy Research (CoFAR) and the NIH-funded Immune Tolerance Network IMPACT Study and is involved in multiple food allergy therapeutic trials through an active collaborative research network.  Dr. Jones also has a long-standing research interest in mechanisms of airway hyper-responsiveness in asthma and mechanisms of disease for eosinophilic esophagitis, and along with her collaborators, is actively investigating these questions in human tissue platforms.

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