Jennifer Edens received both her Bachelor and Master Nursing degrees and completed her acute care nurse practitioner (ACNP) training from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has over 20 years of experience as a nurse practitioner in pulmonary/critical care, cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, and long-term care.
In recent years, she was integral in starting the pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She also managed a large pulmonary clinic at Northwestern and worked in cardiology at Central DuPage and Delnor Hospitals.
Jennifer loves geriatrics and continues to see patients while leading her nurse practitioner team at Paragon.