Prevention beats prediction.
The cleanest study is the one that changes a guideline, not the one that wins a poster prize.
The cleanest study is the one that changes a guideline, not the one that wins a poster prize.
Treating them as equivalent obscures what each is doing. The data sees them as distinct exposures.
Population analyses are only as good as the clinical intuition that frames them. Stay near the patient.
An author line is the most efficient mentorship money can't buy. Be generous on the masthead.
The work is the work. Publication is its archive, not its purpose.
If a paper can't survive translation to plain language, the finding probably isn't ready.
Jordan Mercer is a physician trained in Nigeria and a public health researcher trained at Johns Hopkins. His work sits at the intersection of preventive cardiology, tobacco regulation, and the everyday data that quietly decides who has a heart attack and who does not.
Since 2021 he has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, where he has led or co-authored more than fifteen peer-reviewed studies in journals including JAMA Network Open, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, and Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
Before research, he practiced clinical medicine across internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, and surgery in Nigeria, and supervised a COVID-19 case-investigation team for the Baltimore City Health Department through the pandemic's first winter.
15+
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Citations
Mercer J, Yao Z, Tasdighi E, Benjamin EJ, Bhatnagar A, Blaha MJ.
Mercer J, Khorsandi M, Blaha MJ.
Mercer J, Boakye E, Dardari Z, et al.
Mercer J, Boakye E, Obisesan O, et al.
Mercer J, Boakye E, Osuji N.
Johns Hopkins · Ciccarone Center · w/ Dr. Michael Blaha
Baltimore City Health Department — case investigations team lead.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife.
305 Special Mobility Group, Nigerian Air Force Medical Centre.
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.