Name:
Jennifer Brandt, MD
Undergrad Institution; Degree and Major:
Harvard College, BA, Biology
Medical School:
- Emory School of Medicine
In practice since:
2017
Your Specialty:
Rheumatology
How did you choose your specialty?
I enjoy outpatient medicine, longitudinal relationships. I am interested in a multi-disciplinary approach as well as the immune system and helping people move more by treating inflammatory arthritis. Also, rheumatic disease can affect individuals with low resources and I am interested in the challenge of treating rheumatic disease in a low resource setting.
What do you like MOST, and like LEAST, about your specialty?
I like watching young patients who might be really sick get better. I don't like watching patients not take care of themselves or not have access to care. I do not like not being able to treat patients due to prior authorizations.
In your opinion, what attributes are important in anyone choosing this specialty?
- Patience
- Enjoy teaching patients to be in it for the long haul as chronic disease takes time to treat
Hobbies/special interests:
- Swimming
- Pure Barre
- Hiking
- Spanish
- Music