She is an attending neurologist at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and also directs the pediatric stroke program. Dr. Jordan is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. She completed residency in pediatrics followed by child neurology residency and fellowship in vascular neurology (adult stroke) at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. After finishing her clinical training Dr. Jordan entered and completed a Ph.D. in Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. After a few years on faculty at Johns Hopkins, she joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 2011.