Jean S. Kutner, MD, MSPH is a tenured Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Denver School of Medicine and is the Head of the Division of General Internal Medicine. She received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco in 1991, where she also completed residency training in Internal Medicine in 1994. She completed a NRSA primary care research fellowship and MSPH at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1996, and fellowship training in geriatrics in 1997.

Currently, Dr. Kutner is actively involved with clinical, research, and teaching activities related to hospice and palliative care, specifically relative to symptom distress and quality of life and informal caregiver support. She has developed and directs the Population-based Palliative Care Research Network (PoPCRN), a research network of organizations that provide hospice/palliative care.

Dr. Kutner is recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Award, a Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Research award, an R01 from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, an R21 from the National Cancer Institute and a K07 Academic Career Leadership Award from the National Institute on Aging.