Jennifer Loud

Jennifer T. Loud is an American nurse practitioner who served as the assistant chief of the National Cancer Institute's clinical genetics branch until August 2020.

Life Loud received a B.S. in Nursing from Old Dominion University in 1981, an M.S. in Nursing from George Mason University in 1992, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore in 2008.

Loud spent seven years as a nurse practitioner with the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) medical oncology branch, working with individuals enrolled in clinical trials of new cancer treatments. During that time, she was a clinical trials coordinator and an associate investigator on two chemoprevention trials for women at increased risk of breast cancer. After joining the NCI division of cancer epidemiology and genetics (DCEG), she earned her doctorate in Nursing Practice from the University of Maryland School of Nursing in 2008, and completed NCI’s year-long Senior Executive Enrichment & Development (STEED) Program in 2009.

Dr. Jennifer Loud retired in August 2020 after 27 years of service to the National Cancer Institute. Prior to her retirement, Loud assisted in the development and curation of a new web-based data and patient management system. She worked on a web-based data and patient management system that was critical to DCEG’s Covid-19 pandemic response, bringing the COVID code study of genetic and immunologic contributions to the severity of disease from conception to production in less than 6 months.

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