Rate My Professor Jonathan Klein

Jonathan D. Klein, MD, MPH, serves as the Marron and Mary Elizabeth Kendrick Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, a position he assumed in October 2023. He received his BA in Biology from Brandeis University in 1979, MD from UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School in 1984, and MPH in Health Policy and Management from Harvard School of Public Health in 1984. Following his pediatric residency and chief residency at New England Medical Center (1984-1988), he completed a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1988-1990). Prior to Stanford, Dr. Klein was Professor of Pediatrics with tenure and Executive Vice Head of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2018-2023), where he also held the Savithri and Samuel Raj Endowed Professorship and served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research (2020-2023). Earlier roles include faculty positions at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (1990-2017), rising to Professor of Pediatrics and Community and Preventive Medicine, and leadership at the American Academy of Pediatrics as Senior Vice President for Global Health, Research and Policy (2009-2017).

Dr. Klein's research interests encompass preventive services, confidentiality and access to care for adolescents, youth development, tobacco control, nicotine addiction, secondhand and thirdhand smoke exposure, e-cigarettes, marijuana use, obesity prevention, health services research, and global child health policy. He has led major initiatives such as the Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure (CEASE) national trial and contributed to US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations on adolescent tobacco use and screening. His influential publications include "Health information-seeking behaviour in adolescence: the place of the internet" (Social Science & Medicine, 2005), "COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and adolescents" (The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2020), "Adolescent pregnancy: current trends and issues" (Pediatrics, 2005), and "Development of a definition of postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection" (JAMA, 2023). Dr. Klein has received awards including the Julius B. Richmond Award for excellence in child health and tobacco control (2022), Adele Hoffman Visiting Professorship in Adolescent Health (2021), and Millie and Richard Brock Award in Pediatrics (2010). His work has shaped clinical guidelines, position statements, and international efforts on child health.