Jennifer Lee Ashton (born April 23, 1969, on George Air Force Base in Victorville, California) is a physician, author and television medical contributor. She is the Chief Health and Medical Editor and Chief Medical Correspondent for ABC News and Good Morning America and is a columnist for Cosmopolitan Magazine. Ashton is a frequent guest speaker and moderator for public events including Women and Heart Disease, Ovarian Cancer Awareness, and Women's Health and Fertility.
In 2016, Dr. Ashton was named the first-ever Chief Women's Health Correspondent for The Dr. Oz Show and was designated by Team USA as one of the nationally recognized physicians in the Team USA Medical Network to care for female Olympians.
Ashton was born in California to Dr. Oscar Garfein, a New York City cardiologist, and Dorothy Garfein, a registered nurse. Her brother, Dr. Evan Garfein is the Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Montefiore Hospital in New York City.