Jennifer graduated from Emory University with an MD/PhD after completing her undergraduate degree at Stanford University, where she worked on an honors thesis exploring social and structural causes of severe respiratory illness in Jamaican children with the Jamaica Ministry of Health. She has demonstrated a strong commitment to research, and her doctoral dissertation was entitled, Trends in HPV Vaccination of US Adolescent Females: How Policies, Education, and Health Care Providers Influence Immunization Rates. She also has worked on projects at Emory exploring HIV/AIDS ambulatory healthcare by Black women in the South and a project at Georgia Tech working on a simulation model of hospital-acquired infection transmission in neonatal intensive care units. Her work has been published in AIDS Care and The International Journal of Health Services. Jennifer also has significant teaching and volunteer experience and enjoys knitting, pilates, reading mystery novels, and spending time with her husband and baby. Jennifer will be joining the Research Track.
Get to Know Jennifer
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Professional Interests: Research, Teaching, Community Psychiatry, CL, Inpatient and Emergency Psychiatry
Future Plans: Academics
Hobbies: Knitting, mystery novels, classic films and Pilates
Education
- MD - Emory University School of Medicine, 2018
- PhD - Emory University School of Medicine, 2014
- BA - Stanford University