PolicyLab

Sophia Jan is a faculty scholar at PolicyLab, the division chief of general pediatrics at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, medical director of Northwell Health’s Health Homes Serving Children and a health services researcher. Dr. Jan is an instrumental part of ensuring that the hospital delivers state-of-the-art pediatric care, provides a family-centric atmosphere and continues to maintain the medical center’s status as one of the nation’s top children’s hospitals.

Prior to joining Northwell Health, Dr. Jan spent eight years at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), where she founded and became medical director of a multidisciplinary intervention team helping pediatric patients navigate and transition to adult care. She was also a faculty member at PolicyLab and associate program director of the combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency program at CHOP and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), and a general internist at UPenn. Dr. Jan earned her bachelor’s degree from the City University of New York at Brooklyn College and her medical degree from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. She continued her fellowship training as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the Perelman School of Medicine at UPenn, earning a Master’s in Health Policy Research.