Dr. Jonathan Hibbs is Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine in Yakima, Washington. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Earlham College and his Doctor of Medicine from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Hibbs completed an Internal Medicine residency at the University of Minnesota, served as a Rockefeller Foundation Geographic Medicine Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, and completed Infectious Disease and Medical Microbiology fellowships at the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic, respectively. He also served in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and held an NIH National Research Service Award fellowship. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, and Medical Microbiology from the American __________________________________________. He maintains active clinical and teaching roles, including hospitalist precepting for family medicine residents and clinical work across local hospitals.
Dr. Hibbs’ career spans clinical care, public health, laboratory medicine, research, and medical education with a focus on diagnosing and controlling infection in vulnerable and underserved populations. His past roles include Director of Bacteriology and Bioterrorism Preparedness Laboratories for the New York State Department of Health, Vice President of Medical Applications at Evident Technologies, Medical Director for VA and community outpatient clinics, and medical director roles in hospital medicine and outpatient clinics at Kittitas Valley Healthcare. He has led quality improvement and infection control initiatives, developed molecular diagnostic protocols, taught biomedical statistics and research design to residents, and contributed to public health responses, including work during the 2001 anthrax incident. Dr. Hibbs continues to volunteer regularly in rural medical education and mission work in Honduras and maintains interests in health education, care for disenfranchised populations, molecular diagnostics of infection, and survivorship following high-risk events. He and his family live in Yakima, WA.