About Dr. Jacobson

An alumnus of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Jacobson completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and a fellowship in gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He then joined the faculty at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, where he worked for over three decades.


A prolific researcher, Dr. Jacobson has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in numerous top-tier publications including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and Gastroenterology. He has edited two books on endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and a volume on hepatitis B for Clinics in Liver Disease. Additionally, he has served as an associate editor of the Journal of Hepatology, and on the editorial boards of Hepatology, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Digestive Diseases and Sciences.

Dr. Jacobson also served on the examination committees of the American Board of Internal Medicine, for both gastroenterology and transplant hepatology, and is a past president of both the New York Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the New York Gastroenterological Association. He has been co-chair of the annual Viral Hepatitis Congress in Frankfurt, Germany, for the past five years. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American Gastroenterological Association, the American College of Gastroenterology, and the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, and was recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London.

"I am honored to join a division and institution where the mission of excellence in patient care, education, and research are embodied in every member of the team," says Dr. Jacobson. "I look forward to working with the group of hepatologists, surgeons, and other specialists who have done so much to build the outstanding program in liver diseases at NYU Langone."

SOURCE NYU Langone Health

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