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Jennifer Knight, MD

Jennifer Knight, MD, MS, FACLP

Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology

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  • Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

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Learn more about the Knight Biobehavioral Oncology Laboratory

Biography

Dr. Knight completed her undergraduate training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her medical training at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She completed her residency training in a combined Internal Medicine and Psychiatry program at Rush University in Chicago, and is double board certified in both specialties. She also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in psychoneuroimmunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Honors and Awards

1. Hilldale Research Fellowship, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison WI (1998)
2. Houghton Award, Wisconsin Medical Society (2004)
*Given to a medical student demonstrating excellence in socioeconomic and scientific medical issues
3. Applause Award, Department of Psychiatry, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL (2005)
*Awarded to resident for excellence in patient care
4. Martin Fenton Award for Outstanding Medicine/Psychiatry Resident, The Association of Medicine and Psychiatry (2008)
5. William Webb Research Fellowship, Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (2009-2010)
6. Medical Fellow Travel Scholarship Award, American Psychosomatic Society (2010)
7. Young Scholar Award, American Psychosomatic Society (2011)
8. Fellowship status, Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry (FACLP) (2014)
9. Community of Innovators Award, MCW, Milwaukee, WI (2018)
*Awarded to an MCW faculty member in acknowledgement of extraordinary passion, leadership, and efforts in innovation to better serve our students, patients, and communities
10. Woman Rising Pioneer in Research Award Nominee (2018-2019)
11. Elected Fellow, Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (2019)
*Premier honorary scientific organization for scientists working at the interface of behavior and medicine
12. Dlin-Fischer Clinical Research Award (2023)
*Given to the author of the paper judged to be the most outstanding submission to the ACLP annual meeting

Research Interests

Dr. Knight’s research interests involve investigating the physiologic and immunologic effects that account for the relationship between psychosocial factors and clinical outcomes in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. Clinically, she is the Medical Director of the Psycho-Oncology Program at Froedtert and MCW and specializes in general and psycho-oncology psychosomatic medicine consultation. She sees patients at the MCW Cancer Center and at Froedtert Hospital. She is on faculty at the Neuroscience Research Center and is also a Clinical Member of the MCW Cancer Center in the Transplantation Biology and Immunotherapy Research Program.

Publications

Publications of Jennifer M. Knight MD, MS from the Faculty Collaboration Database

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