In his role in the Research Center for Gender-Based Medicine, Dr. Jensen leads the Clinical Discovery Program that helps OHSU clinician-scientists and basic scientists develop protocols and conduct clinical research for their projects in gender-related medicine. He also chairs the external advisory committee for the Center.

Dr. Jensen is Director of the Women’s Health Research Unit and the Vulvar Pain Clinic at OHSU, and he is a collaborating scientist at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. His clinical interests include vulvar disease and family planning. His primary areas of research involve preclinical investigations of new contraceptive methods and clinical trials in family planning and vulvar disease. In 2003, Dr. Jensen was named the first Leon Speroff Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at OHSU.

A native of the northwest, Dr. Jensen received his medical degree from Emory University and completed an internship at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose and an OB/GYN residency at OHSU. He has been board certified since 1990, and he served in the medical corp of the United States Navy prior to accepting a faculty position at OHSU in 1992.