Jenny Han, MD, MSc
Dr. Jenny Han, MD, MSc, ATSF, completed her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University and began her career in caregiving as a substance abuse counselor for teenage girls. She went on to become an EMT and paramedic before attending medical school at Ross University. She completed an Internal Medicine residency at Henry Ford Hospital as chief medical resident and completed a fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Emory University as chief fellow. In addition, she earned her master’s degree in science from the Emory Rollins School of Public Health.
At Grady Hospital, she serves as the Medical Director of Respiratory Care Services and the Medical Director of the Long Covid Clinic Collaborative. In addition, she is a member of Emory University’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and the chair of Women in Critical Care at the American Thoracic Society. Dr. Han actively participates in teaching medical students, residents, and fellows at Emory University School of Medicine.
Dr. Han’s research career has focused on defining the relationship between host immunity in immunocompromised patients with respiratory infections, and she has focused her clinical and research interests on defining and treating long COVID patients. She is a multiple principal investigator and co-principal investigator on several federally funded Long COVID clinical and research grants.
Board Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine
Affiliations
Emory
Education & Training
- Medical School: Ross University School of Medicine
- Internship: Henry Ford Hospital
- Residency: Henry Ford Hospital
Fellowships
Emory University School of Medicine
Awards and Honors
- David C. Leach Award Recipient, ACGME, 2010
- Emory Excellence in Teaching award, 2023
- Emory@Grady Innovation Award, 2025
- Emory School of Medicine Team Science Award, 2025
Locations and Directions
Grady Memorial Hospital
Emergency Care: 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
Outpatient Care: Monday-Friday: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Visiting hours are from 8 a.m. – 10:30 p.m. daily
Publications
- Timing of Long COVID Improvement in Prospectively Followed RECOVER-Adult Participants.
Reeder HT, Donohue SE, Martin JN, Hornig M, Mosier JM, Ashktorab H, Atieh O, Blomkalns AL, Brim H, Chen Y, Cortez MM, Erdmann NB, Fang M, Flaherman VJ, Goepfert P, Goldman JD, Hamburg NM, Han JE, Heath JR, Jacoby VL, Jolley SE, Kelly JD, Kelly SW, Kim C, Krishnan JA, Letts RJ, Levitan EB, Modes ME, McComsey GA, Metz TD, Mullington JM, Ofotokun I, Okumura MJ, Castillo Paredes C, Patterson TF, Peluso MJ, Reece R, Selvaggi CA, Sherif ZA, Simhan HN, Singh U, Taylor BS, Taylor BD, Thaweethai T, Trinity JD, Troxel AB, Utz PJ, Vasey AJ, Weinberger E, Wiley Z, Wisnivesky JP, Yee LM, Horwitz LI, Foulkes AS, Levy BD,
Annals of internal medicine. 2026;
PMID: 42970801 - Adopting Global Lung Function Initiative Reference Equations Alters Pulmonary Function Testing Interpretation in a Safety-Net Cohort.
Russell ST, Han JE, Kempker JA, Honig E, Kukoyi AT
The open respiratory medicine journal. 2026;
PMID: 42899075 - Enrolling and retaining a representative population in the NIH Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER)-Adult Cohort.
Berry J, Gander JC, Lu J, Aguilar FAA, Teunis L, Ryerson AB, de Ramirez S, Donohue SE, Mehta C, Han JE, Cribbs SK, Walker TA, Joseph Y, Pemu P, Marconi VC, Wiley Z, Verduzco-Gutierrez M, Bassett IV, Sharareh N, Ofotokun I, Edmiston M, Javia V, Elchommali J, Ifejika C, Brown-Smith K, Asencios W, Elsey I, Sader S, Hafner JW, Hendrickson M, Kelly SW, Parthasarathy S, Pogreba-Brown K, Nunes P, Castro L, Stein-Seroussi D, Nguyen K, Saldino R, Linton J, Riddick S, Briscoe J, Krishnan JA, Gerald LB
Research square. 2026;
PMID: 42466423 - Targeting arginine metabolism overcomes chemotherapy resistance in aggressive-variant prostate cancers.
Subramani E, Pilié PG, Slack-Tidwell R, Viscuse PV, Kuang X, Kandasamy T, Awad D, Han JJ, Huang L, Peterson CB, Zurita AJ, Subudhi SK, Corn PG, Soundararajan R, Shepherd P, Piyarathna B, Putluri V, Putluri N, Sreekumar A, Wang Y, Zoubeidi A, Mahmud I, Martinez SA, Tan L, Lorenzi PL, Basu S, Jindal S, Sharma P, Logothetis CJ, Thompson TC, Frigo DE, Aparicio AM
iScience. 2026;29(6):116184.
PMID: 42291217 - Comparative outcomes of lisocabtagene maraleucel versus an external control arm in third-line or later relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma.
Nastoupil LJ, Martín García-Sancho A, Izutsu K, Cartron G, Zausner Skarbnik AP, Reguera Ortega JL, Goto H, Borchmann P, Farazi T, Bar M, Del Rosario Olivera M, Kumar J, De Benedetti M, Gu F, Stein D, Han J, Palomba ML
Leukemia & lymphoma. 2026;67(7):1567-1579.
PMID: 42050853 - Post-dural Puncture Headache Complicated by Subdural Hematoma in an Elderly Patient Following a Pencil-Point Spinal Needle Anesthesia: A Case Report.
Finger A, Rapsas B, Karayi E, Han J, Ramanujam V
Cureus. 2026;18(3):e105887.
PMID: 42037979 - Long COVID trajectories in the prospectively followed RECOVER-Adult US cohort.
Thaweethai T, Donohue SE, Martin JN, Hornig M, Mosier JM, Shinnick DJ, Ashktorab H, Atieh O, Blomkalns A, Brim H, Chen Y, Cortez MM, Erdmann NB, Flaherman V, Goepfert P, Goldman JD, Hamburg NM, Han JE, Heath JR, Jacoby V, Jolley SE, Kelly JD, Kelly SW, Kim C, Krishnan JA, Letts R, Levitan EB, Modes ME, McComsey GA, Metz TD, Mullington JM, Ofotokun I, Okumura MJ, Paredes CC, Patterson TF, Peluso MJ, Reece R, Sherif ZA, Simhan HN, Simmons C, Singh U, Taylor BS, Taylor BD, Trinity JD, Troxel AB, Utz PJ, Vasey AJ, Weinberger E, Wiley Z, Wisnivesky J, Yee LM, Horwitz L, Foulkes AS, Levy BD,
Nature communications. 2025;16(1):9557.
PMID: 41249167 - Wearable-derived Sleep Measurements are Associated with Long-COVID in the RECOVER Adult Cohort.
Parthasarathy S, Brosnahan S, Sieberts S, Neto E, Li Y, Tummalacherla M, Brown HE, Chow SM, Dunn J, Haack M, Islam SM, Jacobs-Diggs M, Jiang Y, Kossowsky J, Prather A, Raytselis N, Salimi N, Ayache M, Bartram L, Becker J, Chung A, DelAlcazar J, Flaherman V, Gibson K, Go M, Gouripeddi R, Han J, Hoffman M, Jolley S, Kelly J, Koberssy Z, Krishnan J, Laiyemo A, Lee-Iannotti J, Levitan E, Mazzotti D, McComsey G, Mehari A, Okomura M, Patterson T, Peluso M, Prasad B, Quintero O, Ryerson A, Singh P, Singh U, Verduzco-Gutierrez M, Whitesell P, Williams N, Wisnivesky J, Mullington J, Redline S, Karlson E
Research square. 2025;
PMID: 40951275 - Age-Related Changes in the Clinical Picture of Long COVID.
Fain MJ, Horne BD, Horwitz LI, Thaweethai T, Greene M, Hornig M, Orkaby AR, Rosen C, Ritchie CS, Ashktorab H, Blachman N, Brim H, Emerson S, Erdmann N, Erlandson KM, de Erausquin G, Fong T, Geng LN, Gordon HS, Gully JR, Hadlock J, Han J, Huang W, Jagannathan P, Kelly JD, Klein JD, Krishnan JA, Levitan EB, McComsey GA, McDonald D, Montgomery AP, O'Brien L, Ofotokun I, Patterson TF, Peluso MJ, Pemu P, Perlowski A, Reiman EM, Sanon M, Seshadri S, Shellito J, Sherif ZA, Shikuma C, Singer NG, Singh U, Trinity JD, Wisnivesky J, Witvliet MG, Foulkes A, Nikolich JŽ,
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2025;73(10):3123-3137.
PMID: 40888500 - Case Report: Unilateral relapsing primary central nervous system vasculitis-expanding the phenotype.
Montague T, Han J, Cheung E, Drummond J, Soh HC, Lechner-Scott J, Parratt J
Frontiers in immunology. 2025;
PMID: 40529356
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