ABOUT DR. JEN

HEALTHCARE

  • Dr. Jennifer Mackinnon is a Internal Medicine Specialist/Primary Care Physician for the past 25 years, and for the past 16 has worked at the largest academic medical center in Southeastern Wisconsin.

  • Prior to this, she participated in the National Health Service Corps and worked at the Cook County healthcare system in Chicago.

  • She also has experience at Veteran’s Administration Hospital during her Chief Resident year.

  • Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin as well, teaching medical students and Internal Medicine residents for the past 16 years.

  • Leading up to this appointment, she was an Instructor and Assistant Professor at Rush University.

  • In 2024, she won the American College of Physicians, Wisconsin Chapter Internist of the Year award

ADVOCACY

Dr. Jen also participates in advocacy work, serving as the Vice Chair of the Health and Public Policy Committee for the American College of Physicians, Wisconsin Chapter; and has earned an Evergreen Award for this work. She participates in Leadership Days, going to the Capitol in Washington, DC and meeting with lawmakers over issues that affect our nation’s healthcare system.  

NATURAL RESOURCES

Outside of the medical field, she also serves as a board member of Restoring Lands and has lectured on how the environment impacts our health for Treasures of Oz. While on the board of Restoring Lands, formerly known as Ozaukee Washington Land Trust, she helped with the advocacy to acquire the pristine land, Cedar Gorge Clay Bluffs Preservation Area and the ongoing protection of the funding in Knowles Nelson Grant Foundation.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Her other community involvement includes:

  • Secretary, Co-Vice President, Co-President of the Homestead High School Parent Teacher Student Organization (PTSO)

  • Girl Scout Troop leader for two years

  • Former board member and secretary of Mequon Thiensville Junior Women’s Club

  • Volunteer work with Meals on Wheels, MacCanon Brown Homeless Sanctuary, and Lumen Christi Church

  • AFS (American Field Service) Host Family

  • Junior Achievement Teacher Volunteer

A Division I tennis player at Vanderbilt University in her first two years of college, she has coached Middle School tennis at Lumen Christi Catholic School and helped coach at Steffen Middle School. She was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame for Academy of the Holy Names in 2022.

THE ARTS

Before becoming a doctor, she received an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University in Biology and Music and a Master’s degree in Music at Northwestern University. Blending the two, she would volunteer at hospices playing for patients and then founded Harps of Comfort which provided virtual music sessions for ICU patients during COVID. She has also done research in music and medicine with presentations at conferences throughout the Midwest and last Fall, at the International Association of Music and Medicine Annual Conference in Berlin, Germany.

Bringing the harp to Lumen Christi to play for the classroom of her son

Integrating music into medical school curriculum

Performing for the Annual Holiday Party at the Jonathon Clarke House in District 19, Mequon

Presenting research on Harps of Comfort in Berlin, Germany