Jennifer Ryan Hucks, MD
Fax: (803) 933-3022
About us
Jennifer Hucks, MD, is a board-certified pulmonary medicine physician at Prisma Health and an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. She is a native of Florence, South Carolina, and has lived in Columbia since 2000, when she started medical school at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.
Dr. Hucks completed her residency in a combined internal medicine/pediatrics program before specializing in pulmonary medicine. After completing her training in 2010, she joined Prisma Health Pulmonology, where she cares for patients at Prisma Health Richland Hospital and in her outpatient clinic on the same campus.
She enjoys seeing a variety of pulmonary disorders and is happy to evaluate any adult with symptoms suggestive of lung disease. In addition to general pulmonary disease, she cares for patients with respiratory insufficiency secondary to various illnesses, and manages home ventilation and/or tracheostomies for patients with chronic respiratory failure.
Building on her pediatric training, Hucks helps to transition children with chronic pulmonary issues (ex. muscular dystrophy, chronic tracheostomy or home ventilation, sickle cell disease, cerebral palsy) into adult pulmonary care. She also specializes in caring for adults with cystic fibrosis and is working to start an accredited adult CF program in the Midlands.
When not at work, Hucks spends time with her husband and three energetic sons.
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