J Lee Jenkins, MD
Emergency Medicine
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About J Lee Jenkins
Primary Academic Title
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Background
J. Lee Jenkins, MD, MS, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a practicing emergency physician. She is the Director of the Disaster Fellowship and serves as the founder and course director for the SOM’s course in Disaster Medicine and Emergency Public Health. She is also the Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response and the Co-Director of the Region 3 Public Health Preparedness and Response Center for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
She is the former Chair of the Department of Emergency Health Services at the University of Maryland Baltimore County where her team developed the first Ph.D. specializing in Emergency Health Public Policy, developed the “Multi pathogen Approach” for the evaluation of prehospital patients with infectious diseases, and led a CDC-funded training program for EMS Clinicians in collaboration with JH Biocontainment Unit. She is Fellowship trained in Disaster Medicine, served as the Assistant Chief of Service and Disaster Control Physician for JH, and was on a DMAT for 10 years.
She has 25+ years of experience in disaster education and response, as she was part of the team that developed the first online training program for NDMS in the 1990s. She has served as the CFO and Member of the Board for the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine.
Centers and Institutes
National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Critical Event Response (PACER)
Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR)
Research Interests
Decision making, Disaster Medicine, Emergency medical services, Hospital disaster preparedness, Triage
Research Summary
Her research interests include epidemiologic surveillance during disasters and evidenced based mass casualty triage for which she has lectured internationally. Dr. Jenkins's research in hospital preparedness metrics and disaster epidemiology has also recently received NIH funding and support.
Most recently she is federally funded for disaster and EMS worker health and wellness initiatives from the CDC and AHRQ.
Selected Publications
Catlett CL, Jenkins JL, Millin MG. Role of emergency medical services in disaster response: resource document for the National Association of EMS Physicians position statement. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2011 Jul-Sep;15(3):420-5.
Levy JL, Seaman K, Levy M. A novel intervention for decreasing hospital crowding following the blizzards of 2010. Am J Disaster Med. 2011 Jul-Aug;6(4):255-8.
Levy MJ, Seaman K, Levy JL. When the provider becomes patient: a case of prehospital carbon monoxide exposure. Prehosp Disaster Med. Jun 13, 2012.
Morton M, Levy JL. Challenges in Disaster Data Collection during Recent Disasters. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2011 Jun;26(3):196-201.
Honors
Clinician Scientist Award: Development of a risk stratification system for the discharge of hospitalized patients., 2/1/11
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
- phone: 410-955-5000
- fax: 410-955-5001
Expertise
Education
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency, Emergency Medicine, 2006The George Washington University School of Medicine
Medical Education, MD, 2003Board Certifications
Emergency Medicine
American Board of Emergency Medicine, 2007Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)