Jensen, Frances E.

FRANCES E. JENSEN, M.D., is chair of the department of neurology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and an office-holder with the Society for Neuroscience and the American Epilepsy Society. She was given a Director s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health for 20072012, and she directs multiple other NIH-funded and privately funded basic and clinical research projects. She was the only neurologist to contribute to an amicus brief for the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing sentences of life without parole for juvenile offenders in non-hom...