Dr. Jennifer (Jen) DeVoe is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine. She is a practicing family physician, a health services researcher, and the inaugural director of OHSU’s Center for Primary Care Research and Innovation. Her research focuses on improving access to health care, reducing health and health care inequities, understanding how to identify and address adverse social determinants of health in primary care, and studying how practice and policy changes impact care for historically marginalized populations. Dr. DeVoe's research portfolio spans both OHSU Family Medicine and OCHIN, Inc., a community health information technology network based in Portland, OR.

Dr. DeVoe oversees a multidisciplinary research team with expertise in primary care, health equity, informatics, sociology, epidemiology, biostatistics, economics, mental health, health services research, clinical medicine, anthropology, and implementation science. She and her team were among some of the early pioneers leveraging electronic health record (EHR) data for use in health services research, health equity research, and implementation science studies. Using large health insurance claims, electronic health record (EHR), and self-reported datasets, this team uses informatics and analytics to conduct policy-relevant and practice-relevant studies. Research findings inform community, practice and policy interventions that help to improve the delivery of care for historically marginalized populations and to eliminate health inequities. The Center for Primary Care Research & Innovation website has more information about current and past projects.

Dr. DeVoe earned her MD from Harvard Medical School in 1999. Selected as a Rhodes Scholar in 1996, she also earned an MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University in 1998 and 2001, respectively. She completed her family medicine residency at OHSU in 2004 and her Master's in Clinical Research (MCR) in 2009. Dr. DeVoe is a strong mentor for dozens of students, residents and junior faculty interested in health services and health policy research. Dr. DeVoe is an author on more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and is a leader in national and international primary care innovation.

Dr. DeVoe was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014 and has served on several committees at the National Academies. Of note, she served as a member of the National Academies' committee that wrote the 2021 report entitled, "Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care. Most recently, she co-chaired the National Academies' committee that wrote the 2024 report entitled, "Ending Unequal Treatment: Strategies to Achieve Equitable Health Care and Optimal Health for all."