MEDIC. ACADEMIC. ENTREPRENEUR.
I’m Dr. Jonathan Lu. I connect people, ideas, and opportunity at the intersection of healthcare, science, and business.
To alleviate suffering. To expand opportunity.
To help people reach their potential.
01 / WHAT GUIDES ME
I am a medic, an academic, and an entrepreneur currently working in the intersection of healthcare, science, and business. I am a dot-connector and dreamer seeking to heal the sick, protect the weak, and alleviate suffering I encounter along my journey to understand and elevate the human condition.
In the end, all I want is to leave a better world for our children and empower others to reach their potential.
In these things I found the peace I sought for so long.
02 / THE CONNECTING THREAD
Different disciplines. A shared responsibility to make life better for the people we serve.
Care where it is needed.
My work began with people who needed care, often far from the resources they deserved. As a Special Forces medic, I delivered prehospital and prolonged field care in austere environments. As a volunteer firefighter and EMT, I answered calls in my own community.
Across those settings, the responsibility was personal: bring skill, compassion, and steadiness to the person in front of me.
CARE · COMPASSION · RESPONSIBILITYA lifelong learner. A purpose for scholarship.
I approach medicine, behavioral health, and adjacent industries with a learner’s curiosity. Scholarship gives me a way to connect experience with evidence, ask better questions, and turn what I learn into something useful for others.
My work includes published contributions to acute wound management (opens in a new tab) and bringing lived experience into military and veteran research (opens in a new tab), including the perspectives of people navigating TBI recovery and their caregivers. My doctoral research on sleep and pain (opens in a new tab) explored another connection between physical and behavioral health.
After retiring from the military, I carried that commitment into Wright State University (opens in a new tab), helping build the Center for Health Professions, its Pre-Health Professional Program, and its Medical Scholars Program. The goal was to help future healthcare professionals find their path and develop the confidence to pursue it.
CURIOSITY · SCHOLARSHIP · LIFELONG LEARNINGInsight turned into action.
Entrepreneurship gives me another way to respond to needs I encounter. I founded Hardhat Wellness to support people whose work places demanding physical and emotional burdens on them.
As Chief Integration Officer and Partner at Metron Adaptive, I connect data, workflows, and stakeholder priorities to support decisions in complex environments. I’m drawn to the space where different perspectives meet and a useful idea becomes something we can build.
CONNECTION · INVENTION · ACTION03 / PURPOSE IN PRACTICE
A few moments where people, knowledge, and possibility came together.
Service begins with showing up for people who need help now. During the COVID-19 response, I volunteered as a critical care paramedic in Seattle-area hospitals. As a volunteer firefighter and EMT with Bald Hills Fire Department, I also served an underserved rural community where access to emergency care depended on neighbors answering the call.
Overseas, my role as an active duty Special Forces Medical Sergeant took that same commitment to the Philippines. Working across U.S., international, and Philippine organizations, I helped coordinate child vaccination events, women’s health clinics, and dental assistance for displaced populations. Across these settings, the purpose remained the same: bring care to people facing urgent needs and limited access to help.
Talent and ambition need opportunity. I secured a $25,000 grant supporting tuition and travel for four Pell-eligible pre-health students in a global healthcare learning program in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Alongside mentorship initiatives, that work reflected a simple commitment: help more students see a place for themselves in healthcare.
Explore the Khon Kaen study-abroad experience (opens in a new tab)I also serve as a board member of Special Operations Forces to School of Medicine (SOFtoSOM), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that empowers SOF servicemembers and veterans on their journey to become medical doctors.
Visit SOFtoSOM (opens in a new tab)People in demanding occupations carry responsibilities that can reach far beyond the workday. Through Hardhat Wellness, I bring physical, mental, and emotional well-being into the same conversation, helping individuals and organizations pursue health alongside the demands of their work.
Visit Hardhat Wellness (opens in a new tab)A FEW MARKERS ALONG THE WAY
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A foundation of service
United States Army
Clinical Health Sciences · George Washington University
George Washington University
Pat Tillman Foundation
Arizona State University
National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians
FACHE - American College of Healthcare Executives
PMP · Project Management Institute
Engineering, Science & Technology Entrepreneurship · University of Notre Dame
Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
04 / WHAT COMES NEXT
I welcome conversations with people working to improve healthcare, expand opportunity, and turn useful ideas into meaningful action.
