Duncan, Jennifer Gries, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Critical Care Medicine
Developmental Biology and Genetics Research Unit
Duncan Lab
Children's Discovery Institute

Dr. Duncan is an attending physician in the Division of Critical Care Medicine and a member of the Developmental Biology and Genetics Research Unit. She received her medical degree from The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and did her residency at The University of Chicago Children’s Hospital. She completed a pediatric critical care fellowship at Johns Hopkins University and joined the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in 2004. She is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association and the Society for Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Duncan’s research interests center around cardiac metabolism and bioenergetics in diseased hearts. Utilizing mouse models of insulin resistance and diabetes she is studying the effects of excess circulating fatty acid on energy metabolism. Dr. Duncan is particularly interested in understanding the control of cardiac mitochondrial biogenesis and metabolism and the consequences of mitochondrial dysfunction on energy production during pathologic states. She has recently been exploring avenues to apply these studies to alterations in mitochondrial metabolism during development.

Duncan, Jennifer Gries, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Critical Care Medicine
Developmental Biology and Genetics Research Unit
Duncan Lab
Children's Discovery Institute

Dr. Duncan is an attending physician in the Division of Critical Care Medicine and a member of the Developmental Biology and Genetics Research Unit. She received her medical degree from The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and did her residency at The University of Chicago Children’s Hospital. She completed a pediatric critical care fellowship at Johns Hopkins University and joined the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in 2004. She is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association and the Society for Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Duncan’s research interests center around cardiac metabolism and bioenergetics in diseased hearts. Utilizing mouse models of insulin resistance and diabetes she is studying the effects of excess circulating fatty acid on energy metabolism. Dr. Duncan is particularly interested in understanding the control of cardiac mitochondrial biogenesis and metabolism and the consequences of mitochondrial dysfunction on energy production during pathologic states. She has recently been exploring avenues to apply these studies to alterations in mitochondrial metabolism during development.