Jennifer Ashton
| Jennifer Ashton | |
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Ashton in Haiti after the earthquake, 2010
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| Born |
April 23, 1969 George Air Force Base, California |
| Occupation | Ob-Gyn |
| Spouse(s) | divorced |
| Children | Alex, Chloë |
Jennifer Lee Ashton (born April 23, 1969, on George Air Force Base in Victorville, California) is a physician, author and television medical contributor. She is the Chief Women's Health Correspondent for ABC News and Good Morning America and is a columnist for Cosmopolitan Magazine. Ashton is a frequent guest speaker and moderator for public events including Women and Heart Disease, Ovarian Cancer Awareness, and Women's Health and Fertility.
In 2016, Dr. Ashton was named the first-ever Chief Women's Health Correspondent for The Dr. Oz Show and was designated by Team USA as one of the nationally-recognized physicians in the Team USA Medical Network to care for female Olympians.
Ashton was born in California to Dr. Oscar Garfein, a New York City cardiologist, and Dorothy Garfein, a registered nurse. Her brother, Dr. Evan Garfein is the Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Montefiore Hospital in New York City.
She attended Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York City, where she graduated in French and English. In 1991, she graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University, with a bachelor's in art history. Her medical degree is from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in 2000.
In 2016, she received her Master's of Science Degree in Nutrition from Columbia University.
Ashton practices as a board-certified Obstetrician & Gynecologist at Hygeia Gynecology, LLC, a private medical practice she founded in New Jersey. She served her residency at St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York. She has also been an attending physician at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, an affiliate of Mount Sinai Medical Center, in Englewood, New Jersey.
Ashton is the author of three books, many articles in a variety of magazines, and contributed to a health blog for The Record, of Bergen, New Jersey. Her first book, The Body Scoop for Girls, published in 2009, about puberty, is for teenage girls. Her second book, Your Body Beautiful, published in 2012, is book about health and wellness for women in their middle life. For her third book, Eat This When You're Expecting, Not That, Dr. Ashton and Dave Zinczenko created a diet designed specifically for pregnant women.The book was published in April 2016
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