Jonathan D. Klein

MD, MPH

Jonathan D. Klein is the 9th President of the International Association for Adolescent Health.  Jon is the Marron and Mary Elizabeth Kendrick Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Stanford University.  Jon is a health services researcher known for his leadership and expertise in adolescent preventive services, youth development, and tobacco control, and for translation of research into clinical practice and public health policy. His studies were the first to establish the validity and reliability of adolescents’ self-report of their care, demonstrating that a major gap in quality of care for youth includes a lack of confidential, private time with their clinicians during primary care encounters. He served as Executive vice head of the department of pediatrics and as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2017-23, having spent from 1992–2009 at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and 2009–17 as Associate Executive Director at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), where he had oversight for research, global health, publishing and tobacco control, serving as Scientific Director for the AAP Julius B. Richmond Center, dedicated to elimination of children’s’ exposure to tobacco and secondhand smoke. He serves as Treasurer and as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Pediatric Association, a global organization of 186 national and regional pediatric associations and global specialty societies, and as a member of the WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts on Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition.