M. Colin Jordan MD is a university professor of internal medicine and microbiology living with his wife Pamela in Oregon.  He served as chief of Infectious Diseases for twenty-two years at the University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis and at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.

Earlier faculty appointments were at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA Center for Health Sciences) and Davis. In addition to his extensive experience in patient care, he has published over 200 articles on infectious diseases and viruses, especially the herpes group, and he has an international reputation in his field.

Dr. Jordan co-authored two editions of a textbook of infectious diseases (Infectious Diseases: A Treatise on Infectious Processes) published by Lippincott in 1989 and 1994. “Briefings from a Doctor’s Foxhole” is his first book written for the general reader, who may never see his or her physician in quite the same way again.