Jennifer Lee Garfein Ashton (born April 23, 1969) is an American physician, author and television correspondent.

[2] Ashton attended Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York City,[3] where she studied French and English.

[4][6] While at Columbia, she served as President of her medical school class for all four years and was awarded the Bartlestone Prize in Pharmacology at graduation.

[4][5][11] She appeared on TLC's A Baby Story, on PBS, and on Oprah & Friends XM radio's The Dr. Oz Show.

Robert Ashton committed suicide on February 11, 2017 after the divorce finalization, jumping off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River below.

[citation needed] Ashton became engaged to Boston Red Sox chairman and television producer Tom Werner in January 2022.

[21] They were married on November 5, 2022, at the Harmonie Club in New York City, in a traditional Jewish wedding ceremony presided over by a rabbi.

[10] While working as CBS News Network’s Medical Correspondent in 2009-2011, Dr. Ashton received the prestigious Columbia Alfred DuPont Award for Excellence in Journalism.