Jenny Blair is a freelance writer and physician in Chicago, Illinois. She earned her B.S. in geology at Yale University and her M.D. at the Yale School of Medicine, and completed her residency in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago in 2007.

From 2002–2007 she wrote “First Opinion,” a column in the Hartford Courant describing her experiences in medicine. It twice won National Headliner Awards for Special Column on One Subject; other winners included Fareed Zakaria (2003) and Anna Quindlen (2006). In addition, she contributed essays and illustrated features to Yale Medicine Magazine, and published book reviews and research papers in the medical literature, while in medical training. She has been recognized as an outstanding teacher by her medical students and honored for her humanism as a physician by her colleagues.