After obtaining her PhD from National University of Singapore (NUS), Dr Jeanne Tan went on to do her scientific post-doctoral training in National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) Singapore and John-Hopkins (Baltimore, USA) under the supervision of Assoc Prof Lim Kah Leong and Prof Ted Dawson respectively. She then embarked on her Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Duke-NUS and embarked on a career in clinical medicine.

She entered Neurology Clinician Scientist (CS) training in 2016. For her CS training, she focused on research in autoimmune encephalitis at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Assoc Prof Sarosh Irani.

After obtaining her Neurology clinician scientist specialist accreditation in 2021 and 2022 respectively, she joined NNI as an Associate Consultant in Neurology.