Dr. Lou Jenis received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Jenis completed a general surgical internship and an orthopedic surgery research fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center Department of Surgery. He also completed a fellowship in reconstructive spine surgery at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin. In 2000 Dr, Jenis was awarded the North American Spine Society Clinical traveling Fellowship and was also awarded the American Orthopedic Association/Japanese Orthopedic Association Traveling Fellowship in 2004. Dr. Lou Jenis is Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine and Co-Chair of Residents Education and Graduate Medical Education at the New England Baptist Hospital.

Dr. Jenis is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is a member of the Cervical Spine Research Society, The North American Spine Society, International Society for the Study of The Lumbar Spine, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Medical Association, and the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Dr. Jenis manages multiple research endeavors including basic science projects investigating the efficacy of bone morphogenetic proteins, clinical studies involving cervical and lumbar fusion, prosthetic disc replacement, and minimally invasive spine surgery and has published extensively on these subjects.