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    Jennifer M. Orozco, DMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA

    CMO
    American Academy of Physician Associates

    Jennifer M. Orozco-Kolb, DMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA is the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Clinical Affairs at the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) and the interim Executive Director of the PA Foundation. Dr. Orozco-Kolb has served as a volunteer leader, patient advocate, and change agent of the PA profession for more than 20+ years. She has held multiple leadership positions at both the state and national levels and is the former president and chair of the AAPA board of directors. Dr. Orozco-Kolb is a strong advocate for health equity and improving patient care access and a champion of healthcare advocacy efforts on both the state and federal levels. She is an accomplished speaker, published author, and Op-Ed scholar.

    Much of Orozco-Kolb's career had been dedicated to the clinical and academic leadership teams at Rush University System for Health in Chicago, Illinois. In that role, she was an assistant professor, vascular surgery PA, and the director of advanced practice for more than 400 PAs and APRNs across the hospital system. When not working to modernize healthcare, Dr. Orozco-Kolb spends most of her free time outdoors cycling and traveling with her husband Kevin and her three children, Maddux, Matias, and Belicia, in Fox River Grove, Illinois.


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