Jeff graduated from the University of Connecticut with his PhD in 1976 and became an assistant professor in 1978 at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Jeff then moved to Ohio in 1985 to the University of Cincinnati as an associate professor where he stayed until moving his scientific research program across the street to the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in 1993, where he served as a professor in Pediatrics of the University of Cincinnati and as the founding director of the Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology. Jeff retired from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the University of Cincinnati in 2019.