Ayana Jordan

Ayana Jordan is an American addiction psychiatrist. She is an assistant professor of psychiatry and the director of the Global Mental Health Program at Yale School of Medicine. Jordan is a physician attending at the Connecticut Mental Health Center. Jordan's global mental health research explores the link between mental illness, substance use disorders, and stigma in Sierra Leone. Jordan is an elected Early Career Psychiatrist Trustee-at-Large for the American Psychiatric Association, and a 2018 Hampton University Forty Under 40 Society member.

Ayana Jordan
Born
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHampton University
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
Known forResearch on substance abuse in Sierra Leone, faith-based response to opioid crisis
AwardsEarly Career Psychiatrist Trustee-at-Large for the American Psychiatry Association
Inspiration Award Honoree by the American Medical Association
Class of the Hampton University Forty Under 40 Society
APA Resident Recognition Award
Scientific career
FieldsAddiction psychiatry
Global mental health
InstitutionsYale University School of Medicine

Early life and education

Jordan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1] In 1997, Jordan completed her undergraduate studies at Hampton University, a historically black university in Hampton, Virginia.[2] During her undergraduate degree, Ayana majored in Biology and studied abroad in Helsinki, Finland where she researched hantaviruses.[3] After graduating with a Bachelors of Science in 2001, Jordan conducted research on HIV at the National Institutes of Health.[4]

Jordan completed a Masters of Science in pathology in 2006 at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.[2] She completed her PhD in immunopathology in 2011, exploring the biology of regulatory T cells.[2][5] Jordan first explored how AKT3 signalling impacts T cell-mediated suppression in autoimmune encephalitis models.[6] She found that AKT3 both protects mice against EAE and leads to less regulatory T cells in the CNS compartment.[6] Jordan then explored the mechanisms by which Tregs control and suppress effector T cells.[7] She found that NFAT-regulated gene expression leads to Treg-mediated suppression of effector T-cells.[7] During medical school, Jordan was the president for the Physicians for a National Health Program chapter at Einstein.[8]

Residency

Jordan completed her residency training in general adult psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, working to create an inclusive environment.[1][9] She co-founded the Yale Minority Housestaff Organization in 2012, which provides current and future residents with the community, resources, and support in their residency at Yale School of Medicine.[9] During her residency, Jordan served as Program-Wide Chief and developed her passion for treating substance use disorders due to observing the stigma against drug users in other medical disciplines.[3] She completed her residency in 2015, continuing to a fellowship in addiction psychiatry at Yale.[4]

Career and research

Jordan became an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University in 2016, and she became Director of the Global Mental Health Program.[2][10] Jordan is an attending physician at the Connecticut Mental Health Center.[3] HBO invited Jordan as a mental health expert in their "I MAY DESTROY YOU" recovery and wellness campaign in June 2020.[11]

Equity and inclusion

Jordan directs the Social Justice and Health Equity curriculum at Yale.[1] She works on issues related to increasing access to mental health services in minority communities and has spoken out about disparate medical and legal treatment of people of color suffering from addiction.[12][13]

Jordan is a medical director of the REACH (Recognizing and Eliminating disparities in Addiction through Culturally-informed Healthcare) program at Yale which aims to increase the number of underrepresented and minority healthcare providers working in addiction as well as educate the current and future workforce on how to provide the best care and improve outcome for all patients in a culturally-informed way.[14]

Jordan has been an active participant in social media campaigns such as #ShareTheMicNowMed, which aims amplify the voices of Black women in medicine and diversify online conversations.[15][16]

Faith-based mental health treatment

Jordan works with black churches in the Connecticut area to educate and treat the community to prevent substance use disorders.[17] She leads the faith-based response to the Opioid Crisis Committee, which increases the accessibility of mental health treatment to black church community members and has been shown to decrease the instances and severity of substance use disorders.[18]

Sierra Leone

In 2011, Jordan was awarded the Albert Einstein Global Health Travel Scholarship to travel to Sierra Leone, specifically the country’s war-torn Kono District, to study mental health and provide free treatment to child soldiers, amputees, and rape victims.[19] As a resident in 2013 and 2014, Jordan returned to Sierra Leone and further recognized the need to address the severe mental health issues and stigma that resulted from the children being forced to take drugs to reduce their power to fight back while succumbing to acts of violence.[20] Jordan has continued to travel to Sierra Leone since this trip to further study the connections between mental health, substance use disorders and stigma in Kono and Freetown.[19] Jordan explores how mental health is misunderstood in Sierra Leone and she educated the communities about mental health, the causes of mental illness, and the available treatments.[19]

Her experience in Sierra Leone led Jordan to testify in court in 2015 on behalf of a former child soldier in Sierra Leone to prevent his deportation.[19] The story was covered by The New Yorker.[21] Jordan explained in court that Nelson Kargbo’s mental illness would worsen and he would be severely stigmatized if her returned to the country.[19] Her efforts enable Kargbo to remain in the U.S. based on his treatment in Sierra Leone violating the United Nations Convention Against Torture.[19]

Mental health advocacy during the COVID-19 pandemic

Jordan was selected as a featured speaker for the Change Catalyst series entitled Leading with Empathy and Allyship to discuss mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.[22] She serves as one of many mental health professionals that facilitate Stress and Resilience Town Halls as part of the Yale response to COVID-19.[23] Jordan was featured on MedPage Today discussing the increasing implementation of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic.[24]

Leadership

In 2018, Jordan was elected to the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association as an Early Career Psychiatrist.[25] She is on the faculty in the Career Development Institute for Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh which aims to train the future psychiatrists.[3] In 2019, Jordan was elected to the editorial advisory board of The Lancet Psychiatry.[26]

Awards and honors
  • 2019 Early Career Psychiatrist Trustee-at-Large for the American Psychiatry Association[18]
  • 2019 Inspiration Award Honoree by the American Medical Association[27]
  • 2019 Editorial Advisory Board of The Lancet Psychiatry[28]
  • 2018 Class of the Hampton University Forty Under 40 Society[29]
  • 2017 American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP) New Investigator’s Award[30]
  • 2016 Career Development Institute  (CDI) Award (partnership between Univ of Pittsburgh and Stanford)[3]
  • 2015 APA Resident Recognition Award[18]
  • 2015 American Psychiatric Association/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (APA/SAMHSA) Substance Abuse Fellow[31]
  • 2014 International Travel Fellowship from the Association of Women Psychiatrists[32]
  • 2013 American Psychiatric Association/American Psychiatric Leadership (APA/APL) Fellow[18]

Select publications
  • Tsiperson V, Gruber RC, Goldberg MF, Jordan A, Weinger JG, Macian F, Shafit-Zagardo B. “Suppression of inflammatory responses during myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis is regulated by AKT3 signaling.” J Immunol. 2013 Feb 15;190(4):1528-39[6]
  • Shin DS, Jordan A, Basu S, Thomas RM, Bandyopadhyay S, de Zoeten EF, Wells AD, MacianF." Regulatory T cells suppress CD4+ T cells through NFAT-dependent transcriptional mechanisms.” EMBO Rep. 2014 Sep;15(9):991-9[7]
  • Díaz E, Armah T, Linse CT, Fiskin A, Jordan A, Hafler J. “Novel Brief Cultural Psychiatry Training for Residents” Acad Psychiatry. 2016 Apr;40(2):366-8[33]
  • Ross, D, Boatright, D, Nunez-Smith, M, Jordan, A, Chekroud, A, Johnson, MK, Moore, E., “Racial and gender disparities in the National Resident Matching Program revealed through textual analysis of Medical Student Performance Evaluations: an observational study.”  PLOS One,  2017 August 09:12(8):e0181659[34]
  • Brian Abe, Ayana Jordan, Vanessa Hubbard "Transcriptional Regulation of Tolerance" Chapter of The Epigenetics of Autoimmune Disease, Publisher:  John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008.[34]
  • Jordan, A. Mechanisms of T Helper Cell Suppression by Regulatory T cells, Publisher ProQuest/UMI Publishing. 2009.[34]
  • A Resident’s Guide to Surviving Psychiatric Training,  [edited by] Jordan, A, Delanoche, N., Dickstein, L.J., Foreman, T., Garakani, A., Richards, M., American Psychiatric Association; 3rd edition, December 2015.[34]
  • Cynthia Bradley-King and Ayana Jordan. “The impact of child sexual abuse on African Americans; in Contemporary Issues for People of Color: Surviving and Thriving in the U.S. Today. “ABC-CLIO Publishing, 2016.[34]
  • Teofilo E. Matos and Ayana Jordan “Motivational Interviewing: Engaging” Chapter 3 of Motivational Interviewing for Clinical Practice, Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Incorporated. January 23, 2017.[34]
  • Ransome Y, Haeny AM, McDowell YE, Jordan A. Religious involvement and racial disparities in opioid use disorder between 2004-2005 and 2012-2013: Results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2019;205:107615. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.107615[34]
  • James K, Jordan A. The Opioid Crisis in Black Communities. J Law Med Ethics. 2018;46(2):404-421. doi:10.1177/1073110518782949[34]

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