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Dr. Jessica Dowe

M.D, Ph.D, MBA

 

Dr. Jessica Dowe is double boarded in Family Medicine and Obesity Medicine. She holds an M.D. from the University of Louisville, School of Medicine and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Howard University.  Dr. Dowe graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University with an MBA in Healthcare Administration.  She completed her internship and residency training through Jewish Hospital’s Family Practice Program in Louisville, Kentucky and she is also a member of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians. Dowe has practiced weight loss for many years.  

 

Before she attended medical school, Dr. Dowe worked eight (8) years for three (3) Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies as a pharmacologist, bringing newly formulated drugs to the marketplace.  She also served as a member of the Committee for Health Safety and Quality at Humana Insurance Company, Inc. for 10 years. 

 

While functioning as a clinical instructor (Gratis Faculty) in the Family Medicine Department at Pikeville College Medical School in Pikeville, KY Dr. Dowe helped train first and second year Family Practice residents. 

 

For four years Dr. Dowe served as the Chief of the Family Medicine Division of Hardin Memorial Hospital (HMH). She is currently affiliated with Norton Healthcare Immediate Care Centers.  Since 2010, she has served on Passport Health Plans’ Board Subcommittee for Grant Funding where she helps in the decision making process to select and administer funds to start-up basic research and clinical tests

 

 

Kentuckiana Medical Weight Loss Center

Dr. Dowe saw a need in the community for a program that would not only help people develop a healthier lifestyle, but would assist in the intervention and prevention of metabolic diseases created by unhealthy habits.  She presented a business plan to HMH to begin a weight management clinic.  Through her vision and tenacity, she helped develop and became the newly established Medical Director of the Medical Weight Management Clinic at HMH in Elizabethtown, KY from October 2012 through June 2014.  

 

Dr. Dowe subsequently started her own line in the treatment of Obesity in 2014, "Med Life Fit, LLC."  Presently, there are two Kentucky locations; one in Louisville and the other in Elizabethtown. 

 

Her understanding of the treatment of obesity and the genetic, biologic, environmental, societal, and behavioral elements that lead to obesity, make her a valuable practitioner in the handling of this disease.  She employs therapeutic interventions including diet, physical activity, and behavioral modification.  Her office also utilizes a comprehensive approach, which includes nutritionists, exercise physiologists, psychologists and Bariatric surgeons as indicated to achieve optimal results.

 

On a personal note, Dr. Dowe was born in Birmingham, Alabama.  She has taught Baptist Sunday School classes over the last 30 years and is currently teaching 4th – 12th graders at Canaan Christian Church in Louisville, KY where she is an active member. She has a handsome grandson (Izaiah) and a daughter (Janaya), a dental assistant aspiring toward Orthodontics Dentistry.

 

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