Dr. Yearwood is a board-certified physician with nearly 20 years of emergency medicine experience and a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner. She is the founder of Jessica Yearwood MD PLLC, a women’s midlife health clinic built to address a critical and often overlooked gap in menopause and midlife care. Her background includes an academic appointment at the Yale School of Medicine, board service in a private single-specialty physician group, and medical leadership within a large multispecialty healthcare system. She brings deep expertise in operations, workflow optimization, and team leadership, with a systems-level understanding of care delivery and a focus on process improvement, efficiency, and high-value care.
Trained in emergency medicine, Dr. Yearwood developed expertise in evaluating and managing complex, high-stakes, and often overlapping clinical presentations—an approach she now applies to midlife health, where nuance and individualized care are essential. She is known for a thoughtful, high-touch model that prioritizes time, clarity, and partnership, combining diagnostic rigor with evidence-based, personalized care while aligning clinical decision-making with thoughtful resource utilization and patient-centered outcomes. Beyond the clinic, she is an engaged educator and advocate, including her guest appearance on the Reset Recharge Podcast, where she highlighted the intersection of menopause and emergency care and the missed opportunities for recognition, education, and intervention. Through her clinical work, leadership, and public engagement, Dr. Yearwood is committed to advancing a new standard for menopause care—bringing depth, clarity, and a more intentional, patient-centered approach to women’s midlife health.
