Jennifer Cortes
Jennifer Cortes, MD is a primary care clinician and the Quality & Population Health Medical Officer for North Country HealthCare, a community health center with multiple sites across Northern Arizona. She is dual-board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics with extensive experience in public health and healthcare leadership. Driven by a commitment to healthcare equity, Dr. Cortes is passionate about extending AI technology to the lower resourced settings where she has spent much of her career. By combining medical expertise with technological innovation, she looks forward to working with the Health AI Partnership Practice Network to overcome barriers to AI adoption in healthcare so that all communities, especially those in underserved areas, can benefit from these advancements in a safe, effective, equitable and patient-centered way.
Dr. Cortes’s career spans diverse settings including work with the US Public Health Service as a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service fellow and a medical officer on the Navajo Reservation with Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation. She served as a Med-Peds hospitalist for Northern Arizona Healthcare, a regional hospital in Flagstaff, AZ, where she helped lead the hospital’s COVID pandemic response. She currently works at North Country HealthCare, a federally qualified health center, focusing on primary care, quality improvement, and population health. She completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and medical school at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria.