Dr. Jennifer Ashton is a Board-Certified Ob-Gyn, who specializes in Adolescent Gynecology. Born in California and raised in Tenafly, New Jersey, she hails from a family of 6 other physicians and one nurse. She attended the Horace Mann School and then Columbia College of Columbia University before obtaining her medical degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. She was the single recipient of the prestigious Bartlestone Prize in Pharmacology from Columbia medical school. Dr. Ashton served as Chief Resident in Ob-Gyn at St.Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, where she was awarded Chief Resident of the Year upon completing her post-graduate training.
Dr. Ashton is an active member of the North American Society of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She has authored numerous scientific papers and presented posters at national conferences ranging in subject matter from bariatric surgery and septic shock to ovarian cysts and ductal lavage as a screening test for breast cancer. She has performed both clinical and basic science medical research in the fields of general surgery, cardiovascular pharmacology and gynecology.
In March 2006, Dr. Ashton was signed by Fox News Channel as their first female medical contributor. She appears several times a week on the national news network, often along with her fellow physician husband, Dr. Robert Ashton, in addition to appearing on the nationally syndicated Morning Show with Mike and Juliet. Television viewers were first introduced to Dr. Ashton in January, 2006 when she was featured on The Learning Channel’s A Baby Story, performing a drug-free delivery of one of her patients. Dr. Ashton has been a featured expert guest on Oprah & Friends XM radio with Dr. Mehmet Oz, and has been regularly featured on Fox Radio Live in national markets. Her frequent health pod casts can be heard and downloaded from gretawire.com. Dr. Ashton is in the process of authoring one book on female health and wellness, which is expected out in 2009.
At Hygeia Gynecology, her private clinical practice in Englewood, New Jersey, Dr. Jennifer Ashton has emphasized a return to old-school medicine with a new-age approach. As an Ob-Gyn, she enjoys the daily contact with women of all ages at various critical points in their lives. “I can deliver a baby, treat an adolescent with painful periods, a 50 year-old with hot flashes and diagnose cancer all in the same day. This field encompasses endocrinology, psychiatry, surgery, oncology and infectious diseases all wrapped up in one specialty.” Many of her adult patients are the mothers of her teenage patients, who embrace Dr. Ashton’s relatable approach and welcome her up-to-date medical knowledge and her un-hurried approach to healthcare.