Jared Pennington, Ph.D., PA-C

Professor

Dr. Pennington is a physician assistant and health policy researcher with over 20 years of clinical experience in many areas of medicine and surgery including transplantation, emergency medicine, neurosciences, and primary care. His current research interests involve social policy in healthcare and how certain policies affect access to quality care and social well-being. He is interested in social cohesion and social capital factors within communities, along with hospital investment in housing and education, to better understand how we can reduce adverse health outcomes. He is also interested in epidemiologic factors of neurological disease in children and currently continues to practice in pediatric neurosciences at Akron Children's Hospital.