Monday, May 31, 2010

Meet Jennifer Hovendon, Elizabeth House Staff Physician

Jennifer Hovendon, MD, has been a caring staff physician at Four Seasons’ Elizabeth House since 2004. She is deeply committed to providing the most holistic and compassionate care to patients and their families while focusing on excellence in the management of complex symptoms. Helping patients and families understand what to expect next is a crucial part of her everyday role.

Jennifer grew up in Westchester Count y, New York. She graduated from Amherst College in western Massachusetts with degrees in biology and French language and literature. She earned her MD degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1994. Moving ever southward, she completed her Family Medicine residency at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she served as Co-Chief Resident.

She moved to Hendersonville in 1997, joining Blue Ridge Community Health Services as a primary care physician. She then became a clinical facult y member for the Hendersonville Family Practice Residency Program for 4 years prior to joining Four Seasons. She is board certified in both Family Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine.

Jennifer and her husband keep busy at home with their two children and a menagerie of pets. She also currently serves on the board of Our Children’s Place, an innovative correctional program designed to help break the intergenerational cycle of crime, poverty, substance abuse and family violence.