Jenny Blair

Jenny Blair is a writer, editor, and physician. She has contributed articles on science, medicine, business, and the arts to a wide range of print and online publications, including the Hartford Courant, the New Haven Advocate, Emdashes, and New Security Beat. She served as a launch-team editor at Medpedia and co-edits the online arts magazine Brink. In 2010-2011, she taught and wrote at a medical clinic in Borneo with the health and conservation NGO Health in Harmony.

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). She has been recognized as an outstanding teacher by her medical students and honored for her humanism as a physician by her colleagues.