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Jordan Shlain is an American physician and digital health entreprenuer. Described as a "pioneer of direct practice medicine," Shlain is a practicing primary care physician and the chairman and founder of HealthLoop, a cloud-based clinical engagement platform. He lectures globally on subjects related to public policy, economics, innovation, and new models of delivering health care.

Early life and education
Shlain was born in San Francisco to Carole Lewis Ph.D, a psychologist, and the author and surgeon Leonard Shlain. Fascinated by technology, Shlain 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 with honors from the University of California Berkeley in 1989. He was accepted at Harvard's Center for International Development (WorldTeach), and as a program participant, Shlain spent a year teaching high school chemistry, physics and biology in rural Western Kenya. In a 2009 interview, Shlain said that his experience in Africa shaped his medical career. "I got a full break of one year living in the middle of nowhere, really, in the jungle. I got an opportunity to take a step back and decide what kind of doc I wanted to be. I wanted to be able to relate to anybody, irrespective on their socioeconomic condition."

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 had made "enormously gratifying" house calls during his residency, and in 1997, seeking to develop a practice with substantially improved doctor-patient relationships, he began working as a doctor on-call for Lufthansa and Princess Cruises. As his practice grew -- he became a house doctor for five-star hotels in San Francisco, including the Mandarin Oriental --  he established the On Call Medical Group. By 1999, On Call had seven doctors and had expanded to include coverage in Southern California. “The focus is on extremely timely care,” he stated. “It’s also about restoring the doctor/patient relationship. A casualty of the economic downturn of 2007, On Call shifted its business model, becoming Current Medical Group and later Discover Health Medical Partners. Shlain subsequently founded Private Medical/Discover Health Group, a vertically integrated internal medicine, pepediatric and naturopathic practice focused on prevention through access, surveillance, and technology. .

Shlain has merged his interest in technology with the practice of medicine throughout his career. In 2000, he founded Medicineplanet, one of the first travel medicine sites. It combined research-backed "vital information" and 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, which automates follow-up care through tracking patient progress and monitoring clinical areas of concern.

HealthLoop was established after Shlain treated an elderly patient with pneumonia. Concerned, he gave her his mobile number and asked her to call if she wasn't feeling better. A week later, he received a call informing him that the woman was in the emergency room and had almost died. The experience prompted Shlain to implement a formal system of follow up which began with using spreadsheets to record data he collected via daily phone calls with his patients. He mentioned the spreadsheets to a patient, entrepreneur Michael Birch, and Birch encouraged him to turn the spreadsheet-based followup system into an automated software program. 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 Economist Innovation Forum, Politico Health Care of the Future, Health 2.0, Harvard's Center for Connected Health, and the Strata Conference, among others.

Philanthropy and community service
Shlain is the founding chairman of the Institute for Responsible Nutrition. He is on the board of directors for WildAid, an organization that seeks to end the illegal wildlife trade by reducing demand through public awareness campaigns and comprehensive marine protection. He has been on the board of directors for the Washington, DC-based bipartisan think tank the Hope Street Group since 2011.

Appointed by Mayor Gavin Newsom, Shlain served as the commissioner of the San Francisco Health Systems Board from 2010 to 2015.

Personal
Shlain and his wife, Dr. Caroline Shlain, have four children. His sisters are filmmaker Tiffany Shlain and artist Kimberly Shlain Brooks.