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

    Chief Medical Officer
    American Academy of Physician Associates

    Jennifer M. Kolb, DMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA is the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of the Office of the CMO at the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) and the Executive Director of the Physician Associate Foundation (the philanthropic arm of the AAPA).
    Dr. Kolb has served as a volunteer leader, patient advocate, and change agent of the Physician Associate profession and all of healthcare for more than 23 years. She has held multiple leadership positions at both the state and national levels, hospitals and health systems, and is the former president and chair of the AAPA board of directors. She is a strong advocate for health equity and improving patient care access and a champion of modernizing healthcare policy on both the state and federal levels. She is an accomplished speaker, published author, and Op-Ed scholar.

    Prior to joining AAPA, much of Dr. 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. She earned a Bachelor of Science in exercise physiology from University of Illinois at Chicago, a Master of Medical Science from Midwestern University, and a Doctor of Medical Science (DMSc) from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. When not working to modernize healthcare, Dr. Kolb spends most of her free time outdoors cycling and traveling with her husband Kevin and her six children, Maddux, Matias, Belicia, Joey, Grace, and Mimi in Fox River Grove, Illinois.


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