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Brian P Jenssen, MD, MSHP

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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Attending Physician, Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Faculty, PolicyLab, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania
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Medical Director, Value-Based Care, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Care Network
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Associate Director for Clinical Impact, Clinical Futures, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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51 University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2010.
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46 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2016.
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Description of Research Expertise

3a4 Brian Jenssen is a faculty member at PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, a practicing primary care pediatrician at CHOP, and Medical Director, Value-Based Care for CHOP’s Care Network (a primary care network for 310,000 pediatric patients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey). Dr. Jenssen’s research involves the use of clinical decision support systems and population health management techniques to protect children from secondhand smoke exposure and tobacco use. Current efforts include helping parents quit smoking in clinical settings and clinical and policy research to protect adolescents and youth from e-cigarettes/vaping. More broadly, he focuses on leveraging health information technology to engineer and implement novel approaches and products to improve care for children and their parents.
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Selected Publications

165 Thayer JG, Jenssen BP, Fiks AG, Karavite D, Ramachandran J, Kelleher S, Nekrasova E, Drehmer JE, Nabi-Burza E, Winickoff JP, Grundmeier RW.: Combining International Standards to Develop Clinical Decision Support for Parent Smoking Cessation in Pediatrics. J Med Internet Res Nov 2025.

 127 Jenssen BP, DiFiore G, Doherty T, Callum S, Gilbert S, Huang E, Biggs L, Lawton G.: Increasing Dental Varnish Rates in a Large Pediatric Care Network: A Quality Improvement Effort. Pediatrics 156(4): e2024069877, Oct 2025.

 1ad Nabi-Burza E, Jenssen BP, Jeffers AM, Ramachandran J, Thayer JG, Hipple B, Levy DE, Grundmeier RW, Drouin O, Vangel M, Rigotti NA, Bryant-Stephens T, Nekrasova E, McKnight M, Winickoff JP, Fiks AG.: Automated Tobacco Cessation Intervention for Parents in Pediatric Primary Care: A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open 8(8): e2529384, Aug 2025.

 17d Schnoll R, Blumenthal D, Wileyto EP, Bauer AM, Evers-Casey S, Stevens N, Fisher T, Ware S, Jenssen BP, Wollack C, Schwartz S, Leone FT.: Pilot Trial of a Behavioral Economics-Informed Clinical Decision Support Alert to Improve Inpatient Tobacco Use Treatment Rates. Nicotine Tob Res 17(1): ntaf129, Jun 2025.

 1b0 Blumenthal D, Stevens N, Leone FT, Bauer AM, Wileyto EP, Foster C, Schwartz S, Villasenor J, Jenssen BP, Koenig H, O'Donnell J, Gross R, Schnoll R.: A formative study to develop nudges informed by behavioral economics to increase engagement with tobacco treatment among people who smoke receiving care for HIV. Drug Alcohol Depend Rep 16(1): 100354, Jun 2025.

 150 Saleh SN, Kim E, Thayer JG, Nabi E, Karavite D, Winickoff J, Fiks A, Jenssen BP, Riley N, Grundmeier RW.: Sharing a Hybrid EHR + FHIR CDS Tool Across Health Systems: Automating Smoking Cessation for Pediatric Caregivers. Appl Clin Inform 16(3): 516-525, May 2025.

 15f Jenssen BP, Tayong N, Martin H, Ramachandran J, Kelleher S, Thayer JG, Grundmeier RW, Fiks AG, Schnoll RA. : Refer2Quit: A pilot referral approach to promote treatment for parents who smoke tobacco through pediatric primary care. Drug Alcohol Depend Rep 14(1): 100322, Feb 2025.

 1ef Schnoll R, Bekelman JE, Blumenthal D, Asch DA, Buttenheim AM, Chaiyachati KH, Domchek SM, Fayanju OM, Gabriel P, Jenssen BP, Leone FT, McCarthy AM, Nathanson KL, Parikh RB, Rendle KA, Shelton RC, Shulman LN, Takvorian SU, Ware S, Wileyto EP, Beidas RS.: Using the Translational Science Benefits Model to assess the impact of the Penn Implementation Science Center in Cancer Control. J Clin Transl Sci 8(1): e166, Oct 2024.

 1a2 Schnoll R, Leone FT, Bauer AM, Wileyto EP, Wollack C, Stevens N, Blumenthal D, Foster C, Koita F, Villasenor J, Jenssen BP: A Pilot Study to Evaluate the Use of Automated Nicotine Metabolite Ratio Reporting within Primary Care as an Implementation Strategy to Increase the Use of Tobacco Treatments. Nicotine Tob Res 26(11): 1570-1575, Oct 2024.

 159 DelFerro J, Whelihan J, Min J, Powell M, DiFiore G, Gzesh A, Jelinek S, Schwartz KTG, Davis M, Jones JD, Fiks AG, Jenssen BP, Wood S.: The Role of Family Support in Moderating Mental Health Outcomes for LGBTQ+ Youth in Primary Care. JAMA Pediatr 178(9): 914-922, Sep 2024.

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