MD MSc FACC FASE
Dr. Jordan Strom is Associate Director of the Echocardiography Laboratory and Director of Echocardiographic Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Section Head of Cardiovascular Imaging Research at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
He received his B.S. in Biology from Yale University and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, before subsequently training in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and in Cardiovascular Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where he was Chief Fellow for the 2017-2018 year. He received additional post-graduate training in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, receiving an M.Sc. in Epidemiology in May 2018. Dr. Strom was the inaugural fellow and is currently a faculty investigator at the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology.
His research involves evaluation of the relationship of cardiac structure and function to health outcomes, particularly for valvular heart disease. Additionally, his research focuses on the optimal use and timing of cardiac imaging in practice. He specializes in the analysis of large administrative, registry, and clinical trial data, in particular imaging registries. He has received grant funding for this work from the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health and he has published more than 60 peer-reviewed publications in journals such as Circulation, European Heart Journal, and the Annals of Internal Medicine. He serves as a guest editor and Editorial Board member for the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography and is a member of the ACC Imaging Council Leadership committee. Dr. Strom was a member of the inaugural class of the American Society of Echocardiography’s Leadership Academy and is the inaugural member elected to the ASE Board of Directors in this capacity. In addition to his role as Co-Chair of the Image Guide Echo Registry committee, he serves as the ACC representative to the board of directors of the Joint Review Committee on Education in Diagnostic Medical Sonography (JRC-DMS) which oversees training in diagnostic medical sonography in the US, the ACC Commissioner to Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), the largest programmatic accreditor of the health sciences professions, accrediting over 2,100 education programs in 32 health sciences occupations, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Contrast Ultrasound Society (ICUS).
