{"id":405,"date":"2015-02-10T20:19:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T20:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltmedicine\/?p=405"},"modified":"2021-08-11T19:41:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T19:41:40","slug":"alumni-profile-atia-jordan-m-d-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/alumni-profile-atia-jordan-m-d-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Profile: Atia Jordan, M.D., \u201809"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Atia Jordan, M.D., \u201809. Photo by John Russell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sleep Specialist Lands Dream Job<\/h3>\n

Among bleary-eyed pediatric residents, sleep was a common topic of discussion, but even more so for Atia Jordan, M.D., \u201809.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring my rotations, most people thought I was a sleep-deprived resident and just wanted more sleep,\u201d she laughed. \u201cBut what I wanted was to dive deeper into sleep and how it impacted our patients.\u00a0\u201cBy delving into different diagnoses, health issues and parental concerns, I found what I loved\u2014sleep,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Because sleep medicine was not an elective during Jordan\u2019s residency, she worked with her department to create a road map into her specialty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe field of sleep medicine is growing, especially in our pediatric population,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are discovering just how important sleep is to our children\u2019s health. Specifically, as childhood obesity is gaining more attention, we are seeing an increase in the number of children having problems with sleep apnea and other sleep disorders.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can also affect the management of acute and chronic medical illnesses,\u201d she said. \u201cGood sleep goes a long way, and we need to make it a priority along with nutrition and exercise.\u201d<\/p>\n

As one of the few board-certified pediatric sleep specialists in the region, Jordan works with a multidisciplinary team to address sleep concerns in an effort to improve the overall health and well-being of patients.<\/p>\n

Since joining the Vanderbilt faculty in April 2014 as an assistant professor of Pediatrics, Jordan said she feels as if she has returned home. The Collierville, Tennessee, native received a bachelor\u2019s degree in women\u2019s studies and child development from Vanderbilt before earning her medical degree from VUSM in 2009.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until her residency that Jordan finally left Vanderbilt. \u201cBut I came right back for my fellowship in 2012,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

After her fellowship, Jordan went into private practice in Nashville until a sleep medicine position opened up at Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve known since I was 5 years old that I wanted to be a pediatrician,\u201d she said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t until my residency that I found sleep. Things work out\u2014it\u2019s all about timing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sleep Specialist Lands Dream Job Among bleary-eyed pediatric residents, sleep was a common topic of discussion, but even more so for Atia Jordan, M.D., \u201809. \u201cDuring my rotations, most people thought I was a sleep-deprived resident and just wanted more sleep,\u201d she laughed. \u201cBut what I wanted was to dive deeper into sleep and how…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vm-alumni-profile","category-vm-winter-2015"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcDnub-6x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3164,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt-medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}