Dr. Jones is an orthopaedic surgeon and scientist at the Huntsman Cancer Institute and Primary Children's Medical Center at the University of Utah. He performs surgeries to remove bone and muscle cancers (called sarcomas) and rebuild limbs in both children and adults. His laboratory research, supported by the National Cancer Institute and other foundations, focuses on the biology and genetics of sarcomas. He has authored over forty peer-reviewed publications in the medical/scientific literature.
Following an undergraduate degree in English literature at Harvard University and medical school at Johns Hopkins, he pursued orthopaedic surgical residency at the University of Iowa then fellowship training in musculoskeletal oncology at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children.
From his first job performing phlebotomy and bed-pan changes at a local hospital, Kevin learned that medicine is not always good, clean, inside work. He finds the dishonesty that can so easily crop up in and around medicine to be much less pleasant than those bed pans. Unconvinced that bigger and better systems can fix the problems in medicine, Kevin believes that educated and empowered patients working with honest physicians can.
He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and children.
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Scientific Articles authored or co-authored by Dr. Jones:
- Potential for modulation of the fas apoptotic pathway by epidermal growth factor in sarcomas
- Extremity sarcoma surgery in younger children: ten years of patients ten years and under
- Patient-oriented functional results of total femoral endoprosthetic reconstruction following oncologic resection
- Of mice and men: opportunities to use genetically engineered mouse models of synovial sarcoma for preclinical cancer therapeutic evaluation
- Glycobiology and the growth plate: current concepts in multiple hereditary xostoses
- Intraoperative navigation for minimally invasive resection of periarticular and pelvic tumors
- Copy Number Alterations and Methylation in Ewing's Sarcoma
- Intratendinous tophaceous gout imitating patellar tendonitis in an athletic man
- Osteosarcomagenesis: modeling cancer initiation in the mouse
- Complex genotype sarcomas display familial inheritance independent of known cancer predisposition syndromes
- Metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma presenting as a large pelvic mass mimicking primary osteogenic sarcoma: a series of two patient cases
- Frequent attenuation of the WWOX tumor suppressor in osteosarcoma is associated with increased tumorigenicity and aberrant RUNX2 expression
- Is There a Predisposition Gene for Ewing's Sarcoma?
- Stringent patient selection in bulk allograft reconstructions
- A mouse model of osteochondromagenesis from clonal inactivation of Ext1 in chondrocytes
- Complete femoral nerve resection with soft tissue sarcoma: functional outcomes
- Peripheral nerve considerations in the management of extremity soft tissue sarcomas
- Cell-based therapies for osteonecrosis of the femoral head
- Reliability of histopathologic and radiologic grading of cartilaginous neoplasms in long bones
- The 88-hour family: effects of the 80-hour work week on marriage and childbirth in a surgical residency
- Surgeons' silence: a history of informed consent in orthopaedics
- Scoliosis caused by rib fusion following thoracotomy for tracheoesophageal fistula: case report
- Symposium on the musculoskeletal aspects of Marfan syndrome: meeting report and state of the science
- Intraosseous neurilemmoma involving the distal tibia and fibula: a case report
- Parosteal osteosarcoma of the thumb metacarpal: a case report
- Ethanol as a local adjuvant for giant cell tumor of bone
- Protrusio acetabuli in Marfan syndrome: age-related prevalence and associated hip function
- Intracorticalchondroma: a report of two cases
- Effects of recombinant hematopoietins on blood-loss anemia in mice
- Quantification of the microstructural anisotropy of distraction osteogenesis in the rabbit tibia
- Severe periprosthetic cortical atrophy in the skeletally immature: a report of three cases
- Viscosupplementation pseudotumor: a case report
- Ankle fractures in patients with diabetes mellitus
- Toward an understanding of duralectasia: a light microscopy study in a murine model of Marfan syndrome
- Unusual osteochondroma of the medial part of the clavicle causing subclavian vein thrombosis and brachial plexopathy: a case report
- Bone and brain: a review of neural, hormonal, and musculoskeletal connections
- Pattern of diabetic neuropathic arthropathy associated with the peripheral bone mineral density
- Unusual presentation of lipoblastoma as a skin dimple of the thigh. A report of three cases
- Of hedgehogs and hereditary bone tumors: re-examination of the pathogenesis of osteochondromas
- Spine deformity correction in Marfan syndrome
- Longitudinal parental perceptions of spinal fusion for neuromuscular spine deformity in patients with totally involved cerebral palsy
- Leg-length discrepancy and scoliosis in Marfan syndrome
- Growth and maturation in Marfan syndrome
- Staged closure of the pelvis in secondary repair of cloacal exstrophy in the older patient