Allan D. Jensen

Allan D. Jensen was born and raised in Chicago and came to Baltimore to attend the Johns Hopkins University. He received his AB degree in 1965 and his MD degree in 1968.  

After serving as a Resident, then Chief Resident at the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins and a Fellow at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, he served as a Major in the United States Air Force at the Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio.  

After his training, he returned to Baltimore and has been in solo private practice since 1976. He is an Associate Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins, where an annual medical school teaching award bears his name. He has written  a dozen articles in the peer-reviewed medical literature.

Dr. Jensen's activities in organized medicine include being President of the Baltimore City Medical Society, MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society, the Maryland Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons, and in 2004 he was elected President of the 30,000 member American Academy of Ophthalmology. He subsequently served on the Board of the Foundation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and was President of the reinvigorated Center for a Healthy Maryland, the Foundation of MedChi.  

He has served as a member of the Maryland Health Care Commission, and was on the Board of MedStar Health, the largest health care system in the Mid-Atlantic. Dr. Jensen was also appointed for over a decade as Chair of the Baltimore City Commission on Aging and Retirement Education.  

After being Chair of the Board of the late Baltimore Opera Company, he was Vice President of the Lyric Opera Baltimore.  He currently serves on the Boards of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Library Advisory Board, the Peabody Institute Advisory Board, and the Board of Governors at the Wilmer Eye Institute.  

Dr. Jensen's wife Claire, a graduate of Goucher College,  was a Co-Chair of the MedChi Alliance, and the Friends of Peabody, and serves on the Acquisition Committee of the Hopkins Sheridan Libraries.