Jordy is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania in the Renal, Electrolyte, and Hypertension Division and Senior Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Jordy went to medical school at Rutgers, completed her internal medicine residency at Boston University, and came to the University of Pennsylvania for her nephrology fellowship and the Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology program, after which she stayed on as faculty. Her primary research interest is the interplay between hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and renal and cardiovascular outcomes. She is currently the principal investigator of a K23 grant funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute evaluating the pharmacologic management of hypertension in obesity. She is co-PI of the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Scientific and Data Coordinating Center at Penn, and serves as co-chair of the CRIC Blood Pressure Working Group. Additionally, she was lead author on a paper(opens in a new window) that was recently published in Annals of Internal Medicine, with an accompanying editorial(opens in a new window) and coverage in news outlets including CNN.