Dr. Jill Grimes is a board-certified family physician practicing in Austin, Texas. She is passionate about preventative medicine and patient education. In keeping with that aspiration, Dr. Grimes has written Seductive Delusions: How Everyday People Catch STDs, hoping a different style of education — stories, not just statistics — might help to lower the shockingly high rate of sexually transmittable diseases in the United States today.
Dr. Grimes was a national merit and President's Endowed Scholar at Texas A&M University, graduating in 1987. She received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, and completed her family medicine residency training in Austin, Texas. Dr. Grimes has been in private practice in Austin since 1994, and is currently working part-time at West Lake Family Practice. She has also enjoyed working intermittently at the University of Texas in their Health Services Department.
Dr. Grimes joined the UMASS medical school faculty as a clinical instructor in 2000, through an innovative internet-based ethics course that connected medical students with practicing family doctors across the country. In 2006, Dr. Grimes became a contributing author and member of the editorial board for the 5-Minute Clinical Consult textbook, and is now an associate editor.
