Jenny Blair

Jenny Blair is a freelance writer and physician in New York City and New Haven, CT. She earned her B.S. in geology at Yale University and her M.D. at the Yale School of Medicine, and completed her residency in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago in 2007.

Jenny is an acquisitions editor for Schiller & Wells, Ltd., Publishers, and is a co-editor at Brink, an online magazine for literature and the arts.

From 2002–2006 she wrote “First Opinion,” a column in the Hartford Courant describing her experiences in medicine. It twice won National Headliner Awards for Special Column on One Subject; other winners included Fareed Zakaria (2003) and Anna Quindlen (2006). In addition, she contributed essays and illustrated features to Yale Medicine Magazine, and published book reviews and research papers in the medical literature, while in medical training. She has been recognized as an outstanding teacher by her medical students and honored for her humanism as a physician by her colleagues.