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Ashlee Jaffe, MD, MEd (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and PM&R
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/ University of Pennsylvania

Ashlee Jaffe, MD, MEd, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and has been an attending physician in the Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) since 2015. She earned her BS in Bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego; her MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago; and master’s-level training in Medical Education, Clinical & Translational Research, and Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety.

Dr. Jaffe serves as Medical Director of Informatics for Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine and Principal Informaticist for EHR Optimization & Provider Wellbeing. She leads enterprise-wide efforts to streamline clinical workflows, strengthen patient safety, and enhance provider efficiency. Her work focuses on designing evidence‑based documentation standards, optimizing EHR templates, improving patient‑entered data workflows, and championing technologies such as ambient clinical scribes to reduce documentation burden. At CHOP, she serves as a voting member of the Unified Informatics Council, Clinical Decision Support Committee, and Data Trust Council, and contributes to strategic initiatives including Epic’s Generative AI Workgroup.

Nationally, Dr. Jaffe chairs the inaugural PM&R Specialty Steering Board at Epic, helping shape EHR development and standards for rehabilitation medicine. She holds multiple Epic certifications—including Physician Builder, Analytics, and Population Health—and advanced badges in Patient‑Entered Data, Health Maintenance, and Cogito. In 2025, she received the American Academy of PM&R’s Innovators & Influencers Award recognizing her leadership in clinical informatics.

Dr. Jaffe has dedicated her career to caring for children with physical disabilities, particularly those affected by firearm‑related injuries. She now draws from her personal experience as a mass shooting survivor to advocate for change and train community members in bleeding emergency response.

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