Rate My Professor Jennifer Gilwee

Jennifer P. Gilwee, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and serves as Division Chief of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine. She earned her Doctor of Medicine from The Robert Larner MD College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Vermont. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital-Lifespan from 1997 to 2000. Board certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine, she holds medical licenses in Vermont and Florida. As a primary care physician at Adult Primary Care - South Burlington, University of Vermont Medical Center, she practices team-based care, emphasizing patient and family involvement, office staff collaboration, and care management to achieve health goals. She promotes healthy lifestyles through small, sustainable changes and values long-term patient connections.

In her leadership role, Gilwee oversees the Division of General Internal Medicine, which delivers comprehensive primary care addressing medical, psychological, and social needs across sites in Burlington, Essex, South Burlington, and Williston. The division educates medical students, residents, and advanced practice providers in evidence-based medicine and patient-provider relationships, while pursuing scholarly activities in quality improvement, high-value care, health outcomes, patient experience, and clinic operations, including grant-funded projects on clinical reasoning, exercise for osteoporosis, lifestyle medicine, suicide and anxiety screening, and cultural humility. She received the Dean's Award for Professionalism from the UVM Larner College of Medicine in 2020 for extraordinary leadership during the COVID-19 outbreak at Birchwood Terrace Rehabilitation and Healthcare facility, where she rapidly organized internist coverage and rotations. Her key publication is 'Mental health, substance abuse, and health behavior intervention as part of the patient-centered medical home: a case study' in Translational Behavioral Medicine (2012). Additionally, she was elected Board Chair of OneCare Vermont in 2024, having served since 2021 and chaired the Population Health Strategy Committee. She has chaired the Nominations Review Committee for Dean's Awards for Professionalism.