Jennifer McCall–Hosenfeld is Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the Penn State College of Medicine. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School (2002), and completed her Internal Medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard’s Center of Excellence in Women’s Health (2005). She completed a general internal medicine and women’s health fellowship, Preventive Medicine residency/chief residency (2008), and Master of Science in Epidemiology (2007) at Boston University and the Boston VA Healthcare System. She has been a member of the Penn State Center for Women’s Health Research since joining Penn State in 2008, and was named Director of the Center in 2015. She currently serves as the Center’s Co-Director.
Dr. McCall–Hosenfeld is an active member of the Penn State Domestic and Sexual Violence (DV/SV) Task Force and serves as faculty advisor for the medical student chapter of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA). From 2013–2015 she Chaired the Society of General Internal Medicine’s Women and Medicine Task Force and has served on the Steering Committee of Futures Without Violence’s National Conference on Healthcare and Domestic Violence since 2012. She was honored by the Harrisburg YWCA’s Tribute to Women of Excellence in 2015 and received the 3C (Committed, Community, Change) Award from Penn State College of Medicine’s Organization for the Advancement of Women.
Contact Information:
Email: jmccallhosenfeld@pennstatehealth.psu.edu
Division of General Internal Medicine: 717-531-8161
Center for Women’s Health Research: 717-531-1074
More information about Dr. McCall-Hosenfeld is available via Penn State Profiles
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Key Research Projects Include:
Longitudinal study of the determinants of mental health among women with high interpersonal stress
- Principal Investigator: Jennifer McCall-Hosenfeld
- Co-Investigators: Carol S. Weisman, Erik Lehman
- Funding: Doris Duke Charitable Organization, Grant Number 2012064
- Project Dates: July 2012 – June 2015, NCE to June 2016 The goal of this ongoing work is to examine strategic responses used by women exposed to intimate partner violence or interpersonal stress and to relate these responses to mood and anxiety disorders.
Improving health outcomes for rural women who experience intimate partner violence
- Principal Investigator: Carol Weisman
- Scholar: Jennifer McCall-Hosenfeld
- Funding: NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health, Grant Number 5K12 HD055882
- Project Dates: January 2010 – December 2012 This project sought to improve the delivery of appropriate primary, mental and preventive health care services for IPV-exposed women in rural communities through qualitative interviews and focus groups.
Rural women’s healthcare project
- Co-Principal Investigators: Carol S. Weisman, Cynthia Chuang
- Co-Investigators: Jennifer McCall-Hosenfeld, Marianne Hillemeier
- Funding: Pennsylvania State University CTSI, Grant Number UL1RR033184
- Project Dates: December 2009 – November 2012 This project sought to understand the perspectives of primary care physicians (PCPs) who provide primary care services for women residing in rural communities in Central Pennsylvania by interviewing rural PCPs in Central Pennsylvania in four key areas: preventive health, mental health, reproductive health and intimate partner violence.