Jeffrey McKinney, M.D., Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Vice Chair for Pediatric Education | Distinguished Teaching Professor Professor Endowed Title Harry W. Bass Jr. Professorship in Pediatric Education Schools Medical School Departments Pediatrics You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Jeffrey McKinney is a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Medicine Medical Scientist Training Program. He went on to complete his internship, residency and fellowship at Yale University in Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Disease, and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. Prior to his medical education and training, he was also named a Rhodes Scholar. Dr. McKinney’s clinical interests include pediatric inpatient medicine and pediatric infectious disease. He is presently a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease, as well as the Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He is also the Director of Medical Education for Children’s Health System in Dallas, Texas. In his role as Vice Chair of Education, he has focused on the recruitment of nationally - and now internationally - competitive house officer candidates with diverse interests. The Pediatrics Training Program currently includes more than 100 pediatrics residents, more than 100 pediatric subspecialty fellows, and more than 200 visiting resident rotators. His overarching programmatic goals are to foster leadership development, physician activism, and critical thinking skills among physicians in training, and to maximize their long term professional impact. In 2018, Dr. McKinney received UT Southwestern’s Mentoring Award. Education Medical School University of Iowa College of Medicine (1995) Residency Yale-New Haven Hospital (1998), Pediatrics Fellowship Yale University School of Medicine (2001), Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Interest Resident education Publications Listeriosis Mckinney J, Freitag NE 2024 Jan 379-394.e6 Enteric Fever (Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever) McKinney JS 2024 Jan 1765-1776.e1 Nontyphoidal Salmonellosis McKinney JS 2024 Jan 1765-1776.e1 Listeria infections in neonates McKinney JS Pediatrics in Review 2016 17 e515-e520 A Bioluminescent transposon reporter-trap identifi es tumor-specifi c microenvironment-induced promoters in salmonella for conditional bacterial-based tumor therapy Flentie K, Kocher B, Gammon ST, Novack DV, McKinney JS, Piwnica-Worms D Cancer discovery 2012 Jul 2 624-637 Salmonella typhimurium infections in BALB/c mice: A comparison of tissue bioluminescence, tissue cultures and mice clinical scores Özkaya H, Akcan AB, Aydemir G, Aydinöz S, Razia Y, Gammon ST, McKinney J New Microbiologica 2012 Jan 35 53-59 Stably integrated luxCDABE for assessment of salmonella invasion kinetics Flentie KN, Qi M, Gammon ST, Razia Y, Lui F, Marpegan L, Manglik A, Piwnica-Worms D, McKinney JS Molecular Imaging 2008 Sep 7 222-233 Disruption of type III secretion in Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium by external guide sequences McKinney JS, Zhang H, Kubori T, Galán JE, Altman S Nucleic acids research 2004 32 848-854 Tightly regulated gene expression system in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium McKinney J, Guerrier-Takada C, Galán J, Altman S Journal of bacteriology 2002 Nov 184 6056-6059 Inhibition of Escherichia coli viability by external guide sequences complementary to two essential genes McKinney J, Guerrier-Takada C, Wesolowski D, Altman S Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2001 Jun 98 6605-6610 Results 1-10 of 11 1 2 Next Last Books Featured Books Fever and Infection in the Immunocompromised Patient. In Rudolph CD, Rudolph AM, Lister G, First LR, Gershon AA, eds. Rudolph's Pediatrics. 22nd ed. Haslam DB, McKinney JS. (2011). McGraw-Hill; 897-901. Salmonella: Nontyphoidal Salmonellosis; Enteric Fever (Typhoid Fever) Chapter 225. In Robert M. Kliegman, MD and Joseph St. Geme, MD. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics 21st Ed. McKinney JS (2019). Elsevier Honors & Awards Best Pediatric Specialists/Doctors in DallasD Magazine (2015-2016) (2018) Mentoring AwardUT Southwestern Leaders in Clinical Excellence (2018) UT Southwestern Academy of Teachers (2014) Washington University Pediatrics Teaching Faculty of the Year (2008) Pearson Award for Yale University Pediatric Teaching Faculty of the Year (2003) Yale-NIH Children’s Health Research Center Scholar Award (2002) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Academy of Pediatrics (2014) American Board of Pediatrics Dallas County Medical Society (2011) Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas (2014) Texas Medical Association (2011)
