J. Stephen Jones, MD, FACS, is President and CEO of Inova, Northern Virginia’s leading nonprofit healthcare system and Greater Washington D.C.’s largest private employer. A board-certified practicing urological surgeon, he is also a Professor of Surgery at the University of Virginia. Under his leadership, Inova became the first large health system in the U.S. to have every hospital rated five stars by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) — an accomplishment still never matched. In 2025, Inova was recognized as Health System of the Year by Press Ganey, the nation’s foremost authority on healthcare experience and performance.
Dr. Jones previously served as president of Cleveland Clinic Regional Hospitals and Family Health Centers. Before that he was department chair and held the Leonard Horvitz and Samuel Miller Distinguished Chair in Urologic Oncology, which has now been renamed and to be held in perpetuity by the sitting Cleveland Clinic Urology Department chair “in Honor of J. Stephen Jones, MD.”
He earned a BS in Zoology at the University of Arkansas, his MD at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and MBA at Case Western Reserve University. After residency at Vanderbilt University, he joined the Springfield Clinic/St. John’s Health System in Missouri. Under his chairmanship the Department of Urological Surgery became the highest rated community urology program in America, according to U.S. News & World Report.