Dennis M. Jensen MD

Dr. Jensen earned his medical degree at the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle. He completed a medical internship and first-year medical residency at the University of Oregon and Affiliated Hospitals. He served in the US Army Medical Corps as a preventive medicine staff officer. Then he completed a second-year medical residency at Wadsworth Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital in Los Angeles, and a fellowship in gastroenterology through a joint program of UCLA and Wadsworth VA Hospitals. He has been on the faculty at these institutions and a member of the Center for Ulcer Research and Education Digestive Diseases Research Center (CURE: DDRC) since completion of his GI fellowship training.

Dr. Jensen is a professor of medicine (in-residence academic series) at the David Geffen School of Medical at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also associate director of the CURE: DDRC where he directs the Human Studies Core. He is a key investigator and on the executive committee of CURE. In addition, he is a full-time staff physician in the UCLA Division of Digestive Diseases. He is also a part-time staff physician in the GI section of the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare Center. He directs the CURE Hemostasis Research Group.