Prof Jordan Orange

Jordan is the Reuben S. Carpentier Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University and the Physician-in-Chief at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.  Previously, he was Professor, Vice Chair for Research, and Chief of Immunology/Allergy/Rheumatology at Baylor College of Medicine and Director of the Center for Human Immunobiology at Texas Children’s Hospital.  Before that, he was the Jeffrey Modell Endowed Chair of Immunology Research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).  Jordan completed baccalaureate and MD/PhD degrees at Brown University, pediatric residency at CHOP, Allergy/Immunology/Rheumatology fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital.  He was the recipient of the 2009 Judson Daland Prize from the American Philosophical Society, the 2017 E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research the 2018 O’Donnell Prize in Medicine from the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science, and the 2019 Distinguished Scientist Award from the AAAAI. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (2010), The American Pediatric Society (2016) and the National Academy of Medicine (2018). Jordan’s research focuses on the cell biology of intercellular immune interactions, the immunological synapse, novel causes of immune diseases and mechanistic insights gained from inborn errors of immunity. Jordan has been continuously funded by the NIH and he has over 300 publications.