Biography
Jordan is an MD-PhD student from Temple City, California, who graduated from Stanford University in 2022 with a B.A.H. in Classics and a B.S. in Biology. He stayed another year at Stanford to complete a M.S. in Epidemiology and Clinical Research. At Stanford, he conducted research in a variety of fields. First, he worked with Dr. Tanya Stoyanova on elucidating novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for high-risk prostate cancer. He then completed a senior honors thesis in Classics under the supervision of Professors Walter Scheidel and Hans Bork, where he conducted a longitudinal literature review of texts from Thucydides to the present day on the human perspective of experiencing pandemics or large-scale disease outbreaks in Western society. For his master’s thesis, Jordan worked with Dr. Prasanna Jagannathan and Dr. Michelle Roh, where he used novel epidemiological methodology to understand the non-malarial effects of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy on a cohort of Ugandan pregnant women. After college, he worked as an Epidemiology Analyst with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health in the Acute Communicable Disease Control program, conducting surveillance of vector-borne and pregnancy-related infectious diseases and establishing protocols for reporting new infectious diseases to public health.
As an MD-PhD student, Jordan is interested in many different research areas such as vaccine development, regenerative medicine, and novel therapeutics. His clinical interests are still up in the air, but his top three interests are infectious diseases, orthopedic surgery, and ophthalmology.
In his spare time, he can be found playing tennis or pickleball, watching sporting events, and solving sudokus for Team USA.
Areas of Interest
- Vaccine development
- Regenerative medicine
Education
- BAH 2022, Stanford University, Classics
- BS 2022, Stanford University, Biology
- MS 2023, Stanford University, Epidemiology and Clinical Research
Affiliations and Activities
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Interprofessional Education Thread Representative (2025)
Publications
- Owaraganise A, Beesiga B, Okiring J, Roh ME, Kakande E, Nangendo J, Akatukwasa C, Lee JJ, Mwangwa F, Kabami J, Semitala FC, Kamya MR. Low COVID-19 vaccine uptake in people living with HIV and those with hypertension and diabetes without HIV at Mbarara and Masaka regional referral hospitals: A cross-sectional survey. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024 May 23;4(5):e0003270. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0003270. PMID: 38781200; PMCID: PMC11115231.
- Lee JJ, Kakuru A, Jacobson KB, Kamya MR, Kajubi R, Ranjit A, Gaw SL, Parsonnet J, Benjamin-Chung J, Dorsey G, Jagannathan P, Roh ME. Monthly Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine During Pregnancy Prevents Febrile Respiratory Illnesses: A Secondary Analysis of a Malaria Chemoprevention Trial in Uganda. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2024 Mar 13;11(4):ofae143. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofae143. PMID: 38585183; PMCID: PMC10995957.
- Liu S, Garcia-Marques F, Zhang CA, Lee JJ, Nolley R, Shen M, Hsu EC, Aslan M, Koul K, Pitteri SJ, Brooks JD, Stoyanova T. Discovery of CASP8 as a potential biomarker for high-risk prostate cancer through a high-multiplex immunoassay. Sci Rep. 2021 Apr 7;11(1):7612. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-87155-5. PMID: 33828176; PMCID: PMC8027881.