William B. Jordan, M.D., M.P.H.

Dr. Jordan is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Social Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. A board-certified family and preventive medicine physician based in New York City, he was previously Equity Policy and Transformation Senior Director at the American Medical Association, Assistant Commissioner for Alcohol and Drug Use and a COVID-19 Clinical Operations Section Chief at the New York City Health Department, Co-Director of Medical Student Education and founding Director of the Preventive Medicine Residency in the Department of Family and Social Medicine at Montefiore-Einstein, a founding organizer of the New York Doctors (NYDocs) coalition, Board Chair of the National Physicians Alliance, and Co-Chair of the Policy and Legislative Committee of the Public Health Association of New York City.

Dr. Jordan has decades of health equity experience planning and organizing for policy and institutional change, managing teams and budgets to deliver technical assistance and services, and practicing and teaching medicine. He helped advance policy change federally (Affordable Care Act) and locally (paid sick days). He helped drive service innovation (overdose prevention centers) and coordination (social needs screening and referral networks) in New York City. He is grounded by his years of community health center primary care and service to community-based organizations.

Dr. Jordan graduated from the McGill University Faculty of Medicine in 2004. He completed residency trainings at Montefiore in the Family and Social Medicine in 2007 and at Mount Sinai in Preventive Medicine in 2009. At Sinai he also served as Chief Resident and received a Master’s Degree in Public Health. He completed a faculty development fellowship at Montefiore in 2009, with a certificate in medical education from Cincinnati’s Children Hospital.

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