Jessica Gillis completed her nursing degree through Harrisburg Area Community College in 2006 where she received the Ephrata Community Hospital Award for Exemplary Nursing Practice. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) through the Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences and a Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN), Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) through The Pennsylvania State University in 2016. Her nursing experience prior to becoming a family nurse practitioner included roles as a hospital staff nurse in medical-surgical care, hospitalists nurse clinician with internal medicine hospitalists and as a hospital nurse case manager. Her years as a nurse practitioner have included working on a hospital observational unit and as a family nurse practitioner in an outpatient office. She was listed on the Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Positive Patient Experience Primary Care Clinician Honor Roll in 2022.