Gerald Henry Jordan MD, FACS, FAAP, FRCS

Dr. Gerald Jordan was limited almost exclusively to adult and pediatric genitourinary reconstructive surgery. Dr. Jordan graduated from the United States Naval Academy with a BS in Aeronautical Engineering. He then – went to US Army Airborne School and was designated as US Army Airborne (Parachutist). Following that he went to US Naval Flight School, was designated a United States Naval Aviator, and served immediately as a Naval Aviator. Following tours in Vietnam, he did pre-med training at U.S. International University Cal Western Campus. He received his medical degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He was a Designated Flight Surgeon in the United States Airforce, completed his internship and urological residency at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, and a fellowship in Pediatric and Adult reconstructive genitourinary surgery at Eastern Virginia Graduate School of Medicine. Dr. Jordan served as a Professor in the Department of Urology of the Eastern Virginia Medical School and became Chairman of that Department. Additionally, he was the program director for the Devine Center for Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgery at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. On his retirement from active clinical practice, that center was renamed the Devine-Jordan Center for Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgery and Pelvic Health.

He was Board Certified in Urology in 1984 and recertified in 2008. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has served twice as a Governor of the ACS, first representing the Virginia Chapter of the ACS, and now representing the American Urological Association. He has served as a member of the Board of Chairman of the Societe’ Internationale d’Urologie and was elected as the President in 2014. He is now the immediate Past President of that organization and sits on the Board of the Foundation for that organization.

He has served on the Boards of a number of organizations that have focused on Medical Service and Training oversees. He was part of the Founding Board of Physicians for Peace. That organization was initially focused on demonstrating Medicine and Surgery as an area where Surgeons of different cultures and religions could come together in Mission Teams to address issues such as the war wounded in several Middle East conflicts. He served as a team leader in Missions to Syria, Jordan, and the West Bank of Israel. Those teams were composed of individuals from the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish faiths working side by side in the operating suite. He served briefly with Operation Smile, an organization focused on the care of Cleft Pallet as well as post-burn reconstruction.