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Jennifer Kraschnewski, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences; Vice Chair of Clinical Research, Department of Medicine; Director, Penn State Project ECHO; Director, Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Penn State College of Medicine
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States

Dr. Jennifer Kraschnewski completed her medical degree at the University of Wisconsin and internal medicine residency training at Duke University Medical Center. Following residency, she completed a NIH-NRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship and Masters in Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a clinician-investigator with a research focus on behavioral interventions to promote healthy lifestyles in clinical and community settings to address health disparities. Her research is funded by the NIH, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA). Dr. Kraschnewski has disseminated her research in over 120 national/international presentations and 110 peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Kraschnewski leads two key programs to address health disparities. She serves as the PI for a five-year CDC REACH (Racial and Ethnical Approaches to Community Health) grant to provide the Hispanic communities in central Pennsylvania the evidence-based tools to improve their health, prevent chronic diseases, and reduce health disparities via community-led culturally tailored interventions. In 2018, Dr. Kraschnewski launched Penn State Project ECHO (Extension for Community Health Outcomes). Dr. Kraschnewski also serves as Director of the NIH-funded Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). The CTSI advances clinical and translational science through collaboration and team science across scientific fields, an infrastructure of research excellence and data-driven decision-making, strong partnerships, and educational opportunities for a diverse and expanding clinical and translational science workforce. The CTSI’s vision is to serve as the cornerstone of clinical and translational science throughout Penn State, with an emphasis on promoting rural health and health equity.
Administratively, Dr. Kraschnewski is the Vice Chair for Research for the Department of Medicine. She also enjoys teaching internal medicine resident physicians while caring for patients in the primary care setting.

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