Jordan Shlain is an American physician and entrepreneur. A practicing primary care physician and the chairman and founder of Private Medical, a family office for health and medicine, and HealthLoop, a cloud-based clinical engagement platform, he lectures on subjects related to public policy, economics, and new models of delivering health care.
Early life and education
Shlain was born in San Francisco to Carole Lewis Ph.D, a clinical psychologist, and the author and surgeon Leonard Shlain. He attended computer classes and a computer camp while a student at Tamalpais High School, and began writing programs on an Apple IIe as a teenager. Shlain graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 with a degree in anatomy and physiology. He was accepted at Harvard'sCenter for International Development, and as a program participant, Shlain spent a year teaching high school chemistry, physics and biology in rural Western Kenya. He later said that his experience there shaped his medical career. Shlain returned to the United States in 1991 and attended Georgetown Medical School, where he focused on technology as well as medicine. He received his medical degree in 1994, and completed a residency in internal medicine at California Pacific Medical Center/UC San Francisco in 1997. While a resident, Shlain co-founded SeniorWell, a telemedicine service designed for use in nursing homes.
Career
Shlain made house calls during his residency, and in 1997 he began working as a doctor on-call for Lufthansa and Princess Cruises. As his practice grew, he became a house doctor for hotels such as the Mandarin Oriental in San Francisco. He then founded On Call Medical Group, which by 1999 had expanded to include doctors in Southern California. In 2007, On Call shifted its business model and became Current Medical Group; it was later renamed Discover Health Medical Partners. Shlain subsequently founded Private Medical, an internal medicine, pediatric and naturopathic practice focused on prevention. In 2000, Shlain founded Medicineplanet, one of the first travel medicine sites. It included searchable lists of travel clinics where inoculations, prescriptions and post-travel help were available, as well as extensive country-specific information on infectious diseases. In 2008, he founded HealthLoop, a program which automates follow-up care through tracking patient progress and monitoring clinical areas of concern. The company was established after Shlain treated an elderly patient with pneumonia and was unable to monitor her continuing care. HealthLoop closed a $10 million round of Series A financing led by Canvas Venture Fund in December 2013. Shlain is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars. Focused on health policy, innovation, and technology, he has spoken at Stanford Medicine X, the EconomistInnovation Forum, PoliticoHealth Care of the Future, Health 2.0, Harvard's Center for Connected Health, and the Strata Conference, among others.
Shlain is the chairman of EatREAL, a non-profit which seeks to raise awareness of illness related to the production, distribution, and marketing of processed food. He has been on the board of directors for the Washington, DC-based bipartisan think tank the Hope Street Group since 2011. In 2003, as the nominee of Mayor Willie Brown, Shlain served as the inaugural commissioner of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission.. He served as the commissioner of the San Francisco Health Systems Board from 2010 to 2015 at the appointment of Mayor Gavin Newsom He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Tincture, an online publication that examines ideas and conversations related to the future of the healthcare system.
Personal
Shlain and his wife, Dr. Caroline Shlain, have four children. His sisters are filmmaker Tiffany Shlain and Kimberly Brooks.
