Mark Jacobson, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Jacobson is a clinician, educator, and researcher who specialized in HIV/AIDS and its complications after joining the UCSF faculty in 1986. His career began with leading multicenter, interventional trials that focused on developing effective treatments for AIDS-associated opportunistic infections.

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His subsequent research was translational, investigating protective immunity against chronic viral infections, in particular cytomegalovirus (CMV), HIV, and human papillomavirus (HPV). He taught medicine residents and medical students and provided clinical care in the Ward 86 HIV clinic at San Francisco General Hospital until March, 2020, when he moved to the Occupational Medicine division to become the infectious diseases consultant for a team of MDs, NPs and RNs who created a system to manage employee COVID-19 health issues for health care personnel working at SF General and affiliated SF Department of Public Health facilities. This included a Occupational Health Service COVID-19 Hotline and Hotline staff standard work guidance for testing/off-return to work decisions, vaccination, and management of COVID-19 vaccine adverse events. Dr. Jacobson initiated a quality improvement program that analyzes data collected by the Hotline to address questions regarding optimal employee management policies. His QI efforts have resulted in 4 medical journal publications to date. He continues to teach Hotline staff and Occupational Medicine residents, consult with Occupational Medicine leadership re policy changes and special issues that arise, and mentor junior faculty conducting observational studies of COVID-19 in health care personnel. Dr. Jacobson is also the author of Sensing Light, a novel published in 2016 about the unfolding of the AIDS epidemic in 1980s San Francisco from the perspective of front-line, treating physicians (see http://markajacobsonauthor.com/).

Awards

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  • AIDS Research Institute Sarlo Award for Teaching Excellence, UCSF, 2013
  • Positive Health Program Teaching Award, UCSF, 2007

Education & Training

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  • Fellowship Infectious Diseases University of California, Los Angeles 1986
  • Internship/Residency Medicine Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Oakland, CA 1984
  • M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 1981

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Grants and Projects

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Publications (134)

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CytomegalovirusAntiviral AgentsPhosphonoacetic AcidCD4 Lymphocyte CountCytomegalovirus InfectionsFoscarnetCytomegalovirus RetinitisRetinitisGanciclovirAIDS-Related Opportunistic InfectionsAcyclovirAcquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeCytomegalovirus VaccinesZidovudineInjection Site Reaction

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