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Dr. Jenson oversees all research activities and educational programs including sponsored projects administration, research compliance, Institutional Review Board, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Institutional Biosafety Committee, intellectual property and technology transfer, undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education, allied health education, continuing education, and Health Sciences Library. Dr. Jenson is Professor of Pediatrics and Dean for Baystate Medical Center for Tufts University School of Medicine, and serves as the institutional official for over 270 trainees in 9 residency and 14 fellowship training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education. He has been on the faculty of Yale University, Professor and Division Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia. He has conducted research focused on pediatric infectious diseases, especially the molecular biology, epidemiology, and clinical aspects of infections and cancers associated with Epstein-Barr virus and human herpesvirus type 8. Dr. Jenson earned his BS and MS from Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, an MD from George Washington University in Washington, DC, and an MBA from the University of Texas, Austin, TX. He completed his residency and chief residency in pediatrics at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, and fellowship training in pediatric infectious diseases and epidemiology at Yale University in New Haven, CT. | 