Professor
UMass Chan Medical School
UMass Chan Medical School
Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE, FAAHPM is Professor (tenure track) of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences in the Division of Epidemiology at UMass Chan Medical School. She received her MD from Boston University’s Combined BA-MD Medical Program and a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a geriatric palliative care physician whose research agenda aims to improve healthcare delivery for vulnerable populations. Her funded projects focus on two areas: (1) the impact of structural racism and implicit bias on care delivery and (2) optimizing medication use with goal concordant prescribing and deprescribing in serious illness. She is PI of NIH R01 to conduct a mixed-methods study to disentangle the relationships between residential segregation, neighborhood deprivation & healthcare utilization in serious illness [R01 NR020439], and a R01 for a clinical trial to evaluate an implicit bias recognition and mitigation training program for clinicians [R01 MD011532]. She is also PI of a completed R21 to pilot test a deprescribing intervention for home hospice [R21 AG060017]. She received a K24 to mentor promising early-stage investigators in palliative medicine research [K24 AG068300], is co-lead of the Investigator Development Core of the US Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN), and is a recipient of a 2015 Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Leadership Scholar award for leadership in community-engaged health system transformation.
