J Lee Jenkins, MD

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.