Jennifer Ginestra
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado
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Dr. Jennifer (Jen) Ginestra’s research focuses on understanding clinical trajectories, variation in care delivery, and outcomes among patients with hospital-onset sepsis and acute respiratory failure to inform precision approaches to treatment. She leverages granular longitudinal EHR data to estimate the timing of clinical deterioration for target trial emulation and applies machine learning and causal inference methods to identify clinically meaningful phenotypes, develop predictive models, and estimate heterogeneity of treatment effect.
Dr. Ginestra received a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Plan II Honors from The University of Texas at Austin, followed by her medical degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed her internal medicine residency and pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. During fellowship, she earned a Master of Science in Health Policy Research with support from the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center and received additional training in quality improvement as a CHIPS Fellow in the Center for Healthcare Improvement & Patient Safety. She was also an active member of the Penn Medicine Sepsis Alliance, a multidisciplinary initiative focused on optimizing and standardizing sepsis care across the health system.
Dr. Ginestra is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Sciences & Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She serves as Associate Director of the Center for Advancing Lung and Intensive Care Outcomes (CALICO) and is the Founding Director of the Colorado Library of health Informatics and Outcomes (CLIO).
Dr. Ginestra lives in Denver with her husband and son, where she enjoys gardening, cooking, hiking, and rock climbing.