Jennifer Hepps, MD FAAP is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University (USU) and a Colonel in the United States Army.  She serves as the Director of the Education Division in the Department of Pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.  As a General Pediatrician, she splits her clinical time WRNMMC Pediatric Primary Care Medical Home (PCMH) and the Pediatrics Inpatient Ward.

Dr. Hepps obtained her A.B. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Harvard University and her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.  She completed her pediatric residency training, as well as Chief Residency, at the National Capital Consortium (NCC) Pediatrics Residency Program.  She has served in multiple leadership roles in undergraduate and graduate medical education, including NCC Pediatrics Residency Program Director (2021-2025) and NCC Transitional Internship Program Director (2018-2021).

Dr. Hepps has served as site Co-Principal Investigator for the I-PASS Handoff Study and as site Principal Investigator for the I-PASS Patient-and-Family-Centered Rounds Study.  She has also participated in both Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) Mentored Implementation projects: as co-director of the Simulation and Educational Strategies sub-committee and as Physician Mentor for Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. As part of the I-PASS Institute, she has contributed to over a dozen national workshops, presentations, and publications.  She also serves as subject-matter expert for transitions-of-care in the Military Healthcare System and has helped disseminate I-PASS throughout multiple military hospitals.