Dr. Jonathan Roberts, MD

Dr. Roberts graduated from the Southern Illinois School of Medicine in 2008 and completed his internship and residency in Pediatrics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria at OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital of Illinois in 2011. After finishing his residency, Dr. Roberts completed fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Blood & Marrow Transplantation at the Medical College of Wisconsin/Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in 2014 and worked as a post-doctoral fellow under Dr. Robert Montgomery and Dr. Joan Cox Gill at the BloodCenter of Wisconsin Blood Research Institute. In addition to being the Associate Medical Director/Associate Research Director of BCDI, Dr. Roberts is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics ​and Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, IL.

Dr. Roberts’ research areas of interest are in advancing novel laboratory assay development to improve the diagnosis of von Willebrand Disease (VWD) and enhancing individualized clinical management of hemophilia, VWD, and other rare bleeding and classical hematologic disorders. He has received numerous young investigator research awards, has over 70 peer-reviewed research publications and abstracts including lead/senior author publications in Blood, ​the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, and the New England Journal of Medicine; and has had grant funding from the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation, World Federation of Hemophilia and National Institutes of Health among others.

Dr. Roberts has a personal passion for the bleeding disorders community as he is also an individual with severe hemophilia A.