Donald M. Jensen, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine, Director, Center
for Liver Diseases
Donald M. Jensen,
MD, FACP is Professor of Medicine at the University
of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.
He is also the Director of the Center for Liver Diseases at the University
of Chicago Hospitals. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois,
Urbana, Illinois,
and went on to receive his medical degree from the University of Illinois
College of Medicine in Chicago.
He completed his medical internship at Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital, and
pursued his residency and gastroenterology fellowship at
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical
Center
in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Jensen completed an additional
fellowship in hepatology research at the Liver Unit, King’s College Hospital
in London, England. He was Director of the
Section of Hepatology at Rush
University
Medical
Center until 2005. In
2005, he became Director of the Center for Liver Diseases at the University of Chicago.
He
has received several awards for his teaching and most recently received the
Best Doctors in America award and the Chicago’s
Top Physicians award from
Chicago
Magazine. He has been a member of numerous societies and has served on
many hospital and university committees over the years. He is currently
President of the Illinois
chapter of the American Liver Foundation and also a member of its national
board of directors. Dr. Jensen
also holds consultative positions including the Roche Global Hepatitis
Advisory Board, Abbott Laboratories, Astra-Zeneca, Boehringer-Ingelheim, and
GlobeImmune, Inc. Hepatitis Advisory Boards. He is currently an editor for
Current Hepatitis Reports and
Clinics in Liver Disease, and is
a contributor to over 200 publications, abstracts, and books. Dr. Jensen has
been an invited lecturer of numerous presentations covering topics in viral
hepatitis, cirrhosis, and liver transplantation.
