Jessica Leigh Colburn MD

Dr. Jessica Colburn is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise in geriatric medicine. She earned her M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and performed a fellowship in geriatric medicine and gerontology at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Colburn’s clinical research in primary care partnerships with older adults and their caregivers.

She is the principal investigator of the Johns Hopkins Geriatric Education Center and Consortium, a major educational initiative in geriatrics at Johns Hopkins, designed to provide a broad-based education in geriatric medicine to health professionals throughout Maryland. In addition, Dr. Colburn is the director of the Johns Hopkins Topics in Geriatric Medicine Course; she teaches a course in geriatrics for physician assistant students at Anne Arundel Community College; leads the Life Cycle-Aging Longitudinal Strand course for all medical students; and precepts and mentors students, residents and fellows.