Nurse Practitioner
Family Medicine
Department: Family Medicine
Jess Henning, APRN-CNP, holds bachelor’s degrees in Environmental Science, and Geography and Planning. She completed an MS in Environmental Science and Health at the University of Nevada, Reno, focusing on climate change and water resources. After graduate school, she ran a laboratory for a gourmet vegetable farm, was a park naturalist and program coordinator, and taught biology at Bowling Green State University – Firelands. She obtained her Yoga Alliance teaching certification with additional specialty certifications in trauma and resilience (EMBER Program), addiction and recovery (Yoga of Recovery) and children’s yoga (Radiant Child Yoga).
Jess returned to school and graduated from The Ohio State University College of Nursing as a family nurse practitioner. She taught EMBER yoga at the Columbus YWCA as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow and worked with adolescents with congenital heart disease on a National Institutes of Health study through Nationwide Children’s Hospital during school. Post- graduation she completed the Ambulatory Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.
Jess splits her time between clinical care in the Center for Integrative Medicine and serving as the Clinical Education Lead. She integrates a functional approach to treating the whole person with the aim of preventing, identifying and correcting 'dis-ease' in the body. Her special interests include autoimmune, thyroid and gastrointestinal disorders and the interplay between the natural environment, human health and behavior. In 2023, she completed the Institute of Functional Medicine’s Practitioner Certification Program.
When she isn’t seeing patients, you can find her biking, paddling and hiking, and spending as much time as possible outdoors with her rescue dog, Bowie.
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Very knowledgeable and caring! Spent the necessary time to understand my medical concerns. I felt heard, and encouraged that she wanted to help me explore the root cause of my health issues. This is what medicine should be.
Good
Jess is absolutely the most caring care provider I have ever met. She has great listening skills, supportive and makes you feel that she knows you should be a partner in the choices being made for your care.
Jess was very professional, she listened to my concerns and asked a lot of questions. I didn't feel rushed. She is going to work with me to better my health!
She was polite and knowledgeable
She listens, tells me her recommendations and then gets back with me when my medication needs adjusted.
This is the way medicine should be approached, creative and individualized for each person.
Personable, caring and knowledgeable about my concerns. She also asked many pertinent questions about past medical history.
Skilled, insightful, straightforward, dedicated, excellent recommendations
Jess was a great listener, thorough, and patient
Jessica is always full of knowledge and very helpful. I am happy Jessica is on my care team.