Jessica Schmidt, MD, MPH

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LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

Director of Wellbeing
Division Chief, Global Health
Fellowship Director, Global Health

EDUCATION

BA: Grinnell College, Biology
MPH: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistical Methods
MD: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Residency: Yale New Haven Hospital, Emergency Medicine
Fellowship: Denver Health Medical Center, Ultrasound

Dr. Jessica Schmidt serves as the Director of Global Health for Emergency Medicine. She is an two-time Fulbright U.S. Scholar and graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. While in Baltimore, she completed a Master’s in Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she focused on epidemiology and biostatistics. Dr. Schmidt completed her emergency medicine residency training at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut. She then chose to focus on ultrasound and global health by completing an ultrasound fellowship at Denver Health Medical Center.

Dr. Schmidt is currently partnering with clinicians in Rwanda and Uganda to expand access to point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in everyday care, develop sustainable ultrasound credentialing models, and assess the use of point-of-care ultrasound in improving diagnosis of pediatric pneumonia. In Rwanda, Dr. Schmidt works closely with African Health Sciences University and University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK). In Uganda, she collaborates with physicians at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital and the Mbale Clinical Research Institute, along with Atlas International, an NGO dedicated to improving health for children in Eastern Africa. The “Ultrasound Uganda” project is focused on creating a training and research program in POCUS. Dr. Schmidt has also helped to develop and implement a web-based toolkit to provide education and resources for point-of-care ultrasound in low-resource settings: Global Point of Care Ultrasound: A Technical Guide.

Dr. Schmidt’s academic interests include emergency ultrasound, international medicine and resident education. She has studied, taught or worked in Nepal, Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Peru, Thailand, Mali, Senegal, Belgium, and France.

SELECT AWARDS & SERVICE

• Innovations and Impact Award (iAward), Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships (2025) — Read more
• Fulbright U.S. Scholar Africa Regional Research Program, Rwanda (2024-2025) — Read more
• Chair, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) Ultrasound in Global Health Community of Practice (current)
• Chair, American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Section of Emergency Ultrasound Global Subcommittee (2019-2023)
• Woman Leader in Global Health, conferred by the Women in Global Health Midwest Chapter (2019)