Jessica Duke, MD

Dr. Jessica Duke is a board certified Emergency Physician who was born in New York and spent 8 years of her childhood living in France and China. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Cornell University and completed medical school as an AOA graduate at the Penn State College of Medicine. She then went on to do her residency training in Emergency Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, serving as Chief Resident during her final year of residency.

After residency, she stayed at Yale as the first Wilderness Medicine Fellow, working around the world with organizations such as National Geographic, AdventureMed, and the 4 Deserts ultramarathon series. She is an instructor of Wilderness Life Support, certified in swift water rescue, and a master diver. She has earned her Diploma in Mountain Medicine, Diploma in Dive and Marine Medicine, and Fellowship in the Academy of Wilderness Medicine.

She moved to the Big Island in 2021 with her husband Dr. Charlie Duke who is also an Emergency Medicine and Wilderness Medicine physician, and their golden retriever Denali. Their son Kai was born here in 2022. She loves that being a partner with HEPA is like being part of an ohana, the group’s emphasis on work-life balance, and that she has the opportunity to pursue her interests in medical education and remote medicine.