Neurosurgeon Dr. Frances Jensen elected to National Academy of Medicine

The National Academy of Medicine elected Frances E. Jensen, MD, to its membership, according to Penn News.

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Dr. Jensen is the chair of the neurology department and co-director of the Penn Medicine Translation Neuroscience Center at the Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Prior to this position, Dr. Jensen served as a neurology professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston and a senior neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and Children’s Hospital, Boston.

 

She has researched epilepsy mechanisms, focusing on brain development, brain injury and cognition. A member of the Society for Neuroscience, Dr. Jensen also served as president of the American Epilepsy Society.

 

Dr. Jensen earned her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York and completed an internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Jensen then completed a fellowship at Harvard Medical School.

 

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