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Dr. Jennifer Kerns

Dr. Jennifer Kerns is the newest member of The Biggest Loser's medical team. She grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC before moving to Massachusetts for her undergraduate degree, where she graduated from Williams College cum laude, with Honors in Neuroscience in 1995. She returned to the Washington, DC area for medical school and residency, and was chosen to be Chief Medical Resident at the George Washington University Medical Center, where she was delighted to be elected to the auspicious Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. Dr. Kerns then moved to California in 2003 to join the medical faculty at the University of California, San Diego as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, where she focused on patient care, teaching medical students and residents, and authoring chapters in medical reference books.

Dr. Kerns is not only an accomplished physician, but she also understands weight-related issues better than anyone, having struggled with her own obesity since childhood. In 2006, Jen made the decision to transform her life and applied to be one of the 50 contestants on Season 3 of "The Biggest Loser." She was chosen to represent the state of Virginia, and managed to lose an astounding 108 pounds in 8 months as an at-home contestant. Since the show's finale in December, Dr. Kerns has successfully maintained her weight loss (actually losing an additional 15 pounds!) and relocated to Los Angeles, where she joined the busy medical practice of Dr. Rob Huizenga in order to focus her career on the treatment of overweight and obesity. She feels that being able to share her own weight-loss experience with her patients and the current contestants on The Biggest Loser and support them through their own battle against obesity is the most amazing gift that she could have been given.

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