Bridgette L. Jones, MD MS holds a faculty appointment as Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine in the divisions of Allergy/Asthma/Immunology and Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Innovation and at Children’s Mercy. She is a clinician scientist with a focus in therapeutics and interventions to improve the lives of children with asthma. She holds funding thru the National Institutes of Health and has also received other extramural and intramural resources to support her work. She is the former medical director of the Children’s Mercy Office of Equity and Diversity where she started the Children’s Mercy Students Training in Academic Research (STAR 2.0) program that she continues to lead. She is the Assistant Academic Dean of Student Affairs at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. Nationally, Dr. Jones currently serves as Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Drugs and the immediate past chair of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma Immunology’s Asthma Cough Diagnosis and Treatment Committee. In addition, she serves as a member of the Food and Drug Administration Pediatric Advisory Committee and was appointed by the United States Secretary of Health to serve 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.