Jay A. Jacobson, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Dr. Jay Jacobson is Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities at LDS Hospital and the University of Utah School of Medicine. He received his medical degree and residency training in internal medicine at the University of Florida. He did special training in epidemiology and infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and the University of Utah, where he joined the medical faculty in 1978 in the Division of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Jacobson’s interests in Infectious Diseases include vaccine-preventable bacterial diseases, staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome and hospital infection control and epidemiology.
In 1988, Dr. Jacobson extended his interests to include the emerging discipline of medical ethics. He spent a year at the University of Chicago's Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. He returned to Utah College of Humanities, and the School of Medicine. The Division does clinical consultation, research, and teaches about medical ethics to physicians in training, physicians in practice, and to interested individuals and organizations. He has served on the American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. He has participated in local hospital ethics committees and chaired the School of Medicine's Institutional Review Board, which safeguards the rights and welfare of human subjects, and the American College of Physicians Ethics and Human Rights Committee. and established a new Division of Medical Ethics with colleagues from the University of Utah College of Law.
For four years, Dr. Jacobson Directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supported project, The Partnership to Improve End-of-Life Care in Utah. In 2004, he received the American Medical Association’s Isaac Hays and John Bell Award for Leadership in Medical Ethics and Professionalism. In 2006, he was honored by University of Utah School of Medicine’s nomination for the AAMC Medical Humanism Award.
Dr. Jacobson and colleagues have been collaborating on articles about Ethics and Infectious Diseases and are completing a book on that topic.
