On Friday, May 14, Jennifer Hunt, MD, MEd, the Stetson Professor and Chair for the UF Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine, spoke at the UF department of surgery’s Inaugural Copeland-Horowitz Chair’s Visiting Professor Lecture on “Imposter Syndrome: Enhancing Self-Confidence and Overcoming Self-Doubt from the Inside Out.”
In case you missed this Grand Rounds, we encourage you to watch her presentation here.
About Jennifer Hunt, MD, MEd
Dr. Hunt is a physician who has served in many leadership roles, including her current role as chair of pathology, immunology and laboratory medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Before joining UF, she was chair of pathology at the University of Arkansas and the first female chief of staff for that institution. Dr. Hunt received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and her master’s in education from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. After completing her residency and fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Hunt spent several years at the University of Pittsburgh before moving to the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, and then Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Hunt is a certified executive coach and has extensive experience in coaching aspiring, emerging and current women leaders in medicine. Dr. Hunt’s personal passion is to help increase the number of women in leadership in healthcare by being a mentor, sponsor, coach and promoter for women across the country. Dr. Hunt created and facilitates a popular and impactful leadership development program, “Unlocking the Authentic Self”, which helps women to build confidence, abandon self-doubt, overcome impostor tendencies, to live more powerful and intentional professional lives. In all of her roles, from chair, to physician leader, to executive coach, Dr. Hunt finds great joy in teaching people practical tools, skills, and strategies for personal empowerment and growth.