Mark Jacobson, MD
Professor of Medicine, Emeritu
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 and led observational studies and multicenter, interventional trials focusing on 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 Division of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine division to help create a system for managing COVID-19 health issues for the 6,000 health care personnel working at SF General and affiliated SF Department of Public Health facilities. This effort included development of an Occupational Health Service COVID-19 Hotline, Hotline staff standard work guidance for testing/off-return to work decisions/vaccination, management of COVID-19 vaccine adverse events, and a quality improvement program. His leadership of the QI effort have resulted in 5 medical journal publications to date. 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/). Dr. Jacobson retired in May 2024 but continues to volunteer with the UCSF Divisions of Occupational/Environmental/Climate Medicine as a policy consultant and mentor for junior faculty and with the Division of HIV/Infectious Diseases as a consultant re opportunistic infection management. He also volunteers as a community educator about climate change.

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

Websites

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Grants and Projects

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Publications (137)

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CytomegalovirusAntiviral AgentsPhosphonoacetic AcidAntiretroviral Therapy, Highly ActiveCytomegalovirus InfectionsFoscarnetCytomegalovirus RetinitisRetinitisGanciclovirAIDS-Related Opportunistic InfectionsAcyclovirAcquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeCytomegalovirus VaccinesZidovudineInjection Site Reaction

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