Jennifer Oliver DO

Jennifer Betts Oliver joined the Department of Anesthesiology as an Assistant Professor in 2016 after completing her anesthesia residency and pain fellowship at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is a triple board-certified in Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, and Addiction Medicine, and adjunct faculty in the Office of Global Health. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology and Genetics from the University of Georgia and earned, she spent her early career as a Microbiologist at the Centers for Disease while earning a Master’s degree in Public Health. At the Centers for Disease Control, she studied the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and transmission of highly infectious Biosafety Level-4 viruses such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever and was deployed in outbreak emergency response efforts. This early public health experience served as the foundation for her later interest in the dual epidemics of chronic pain and opioid addiction.