About Jennifer

Jennifer Lanoff, WHNP-BC, MSCP, JD, is a board-certified Women’s Health and Gender-Related Nurse Practitioner. She currently practices GYN-only and sees patients at our Washington, DC, Chevy Chase, MD, and Falls Church, VA offices. Jennifer focuses on menopause, osteoporosis, complex sexual health disorders, pelvic floor dysfunction, incontinence, hypoactive sexual desire disorder, persistent genital arousal disorder, and other vulvovaginal disorders such as vulvodynia, lichen sclerosus, and genitourinary symptoms of menopause (GSM) in addition to general gynecological care. 

Jennifer has a passion for gynecological health and well-being at all stages of life. She is a Menopause Society (formerly NAMS) Certified Provider and currently serves as the Chair of the Menopause Society Education Committee, in addition to being on the Trustee Nominating Committee. She also serves on Ms. Medicine’s Physician Executive Group, The Body Agency’s Medical Expert Board, and on the National Menopause Foundation’s (NMF) Medical Advisory Committee (MAC). She is a member of The Menopause Society, the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH), the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease (ISSVD), the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation, the American Urogynecology Society, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG), and the Society for Family Planning (SFP).

Jennifer completed her undergraduate studies at Stanford University, receiving her MSN at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and her Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner degree from Georgetown School of Nursing. Prior to entering the medical field, Jennifer earned a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and was a trial and appellate attorney for over 20 years at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.