Jean felt a calling to become a nurse at a very young age and has been in healthcare since age 16. Received BSN from Southern CT State University.

Worked in multiple hospitals and home care settings on the east coast and Midwest.

"My favorite part about being a Nurse Practitioner is meeting patients and being able to help them optimize their health and watching that transformation. We partner together and use different modalities to bring their health to a whole new level.

It’s a partnership. It’s not just us fixing you. It’s you working with us and being eager to do the work and motivated to do the work to feel better.

I’ve been a primary care provider for several years; I’ve had my own caseload. I tend to use an integrative approach. Integrative medicine is basically working with the entire being – your mind, body, spirit – and then using different modalities, conventional medicine mixed with alternatives like acupuncture, which Dr. Selma does as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine, and incorporating some principles of functional medicine too to take that deeper dive to get to the root cause. And this is how we differ from conventional medicine.

This is what a lot of people are looking for now. They want to dig deeper into their health issues, not just working with the symptoms, but why is it that they’re having these symptoms and they want to fix it, so the symptoms go away and don’t come back.

We are like investigators. We’re going to do a very lengthy interview process to figure out what you’ve been through in your life in your childhood right up to the current time, what exposures you may have had, traumas, different illnesses that may have affected you, and doing the advanced diagnostics that are not done in conventional care to try and get to that root cause.

I’ll be working with gut health, mold issues, women’s health, auto-immune disorders, thyroid disease, high cholesterol, chronic health conditions, hypertension, diabetes … we can do everything primary care can do. But if you happen to have a primary care doctor, we can also augment that care by applying the principles of functional and alternative medicine."

Received Master's in Science in Nursing with post-grad board certification as an Adult NP from NIU and has been practicing as an NP for 20 years. Worked as a hospitalist for DuPage Medical Group at Edward hospital Naperville for 9 years and most recently as a Primary Care Provider with Northwestern Medicine outpatient practice in Glen Ellyn. Wanting to expand her practice to include more holistic care and lifestyle medicine, she completed the Functional medicine curriculum through the Institute for Functional Medicine in 2017. Has helped many patients, friends, and family members regain their health and vitality with this combined approach of conventional and functional medicine.

Married for many years to Rich, her high school sweetheart, enjoys gardening, golfing, skiing, travel, meditation, exploring all forms of spirituality, visiting her daughter in California, and spending time locally with her son, daughter-in-law, and 3 grandchildren.