David Jacoby, M.D., has been named dean of the OHSU School of Medicine, effectual immediately, by OHSU President Danny Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H. (OHSU)
OHSU President Danny Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H., shared this connection with the OHSU assemblage connected Monday, Dec. 12, 2022.
Dear OHSU Community,
It is my pleasance to denote that I person appointed David Jacoby, M.D., dean of the OHSU School of Medicine, effectual immediately. Dr. Jacoby brings extended enactment acquisition and important contributions to our clinical, acquisition and probe missions implicit his 20-year tenure astatine OHSU. His heavy cognition of, and relationships across, OHSU and the School of Medicine volition service america astatine a clip of large complexity and promise.
Dr. Jacoby joined OHSU arsenic main of pulmonary and captious attraction successful 2003, and led the enlargement of that part successful diligent care, research, and education. He became interim seat of the section of medicine successful 2017 and imperishable seat successful 2018. He is prof of medicine, and chemic physiology and biochemistry, successful the OHSU School of Medicine, and has served arsenic interim dean of the schoolhouse since October 2021.
Since 2008, helium has directed the M.D./Ph.D. program, grooming the adjacent procreation of physician-scientists who beforehand medicine from the seat to the bedside. He has led the enlargement of this programme and established our NIH Medical Scientist Training Program assistance successful 2016, renewing this past year. Dr. Jacoby has won aggregate location unit and postgraduate pupil teaching awards astatine OHSU and fostered a technological civilization successful the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program, establishing that program’s NIH T32 grooming assistance successful 2008 (this assistance has present been renewed twice).
Dr. Jacoby maintains an progressive probe programme that has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1990. His probe focuses connected airway pharmacology and abnormalities of airway nerves successful asthma, arsenic good arsenic the relation of eosinophils successful airway disease. He has trained 21 students and fellows successful his lab, galore of whom stay successful probe positions successful academia and manufacture astir the country.
As a pulmonologist and intensivist, Dr. Jacoby attends successful the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU). During the pandemic, helium said seeing the efforts of the wide multidisciplinary squad successful taking attraction of desperately sick COVID-19 patients filled him with pridefulness successful our organization.
And erstwhile our expenses to conscionable the needs of our authorities and patients began dramatically outpacing our revenues, astatine my petition helium partnered with OHSU Health CEO Dr. John Hunter to place and operationalize approaches to guarantee OHSU’s viability for the agelong term.
Dr. Jacoby received his bachelor’s grade from Princeton University, his aesculapian grade from New York Medical College, and was a nonmigratory and main nonmigratory successful interior medicine astatine Temple University Hospital successful Philadelphia. He past did a pulmonary fellowship astatine University of California, San Francisco, and a probe fellowship with Dr. Jay Nadel successful the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute. Subsequently, Dr. Jacoby spent 13 years astatine Johns Hopkins, wherever helium served arsenic probe manager for the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, and was Firm Faculty, a designation reserved for module astir progressive in-house unit education. He was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation successful 2000 and was promoted to afloat prof with tenure astatine Johns Hopkins successful 2002.
Dr. Jacoby asked maine to stock this connection with you: “I americium precise grateful for this accidental and for the assurance that Dr. Jacobs has placed successful me. I precise overmuch look guardant to continuing to enactment with him and with the OHSU enforcement enactment team. I convey everyone successful the School of Medicine for your enactment implicit the past year, and I anticipation and program to warrant this enactment going forward. In particular, I privation to convey the Department Chairs and the Dean’s Office team. I person relied connected your guidance and wisdom. And I person ne'er been disappointed.”
Please articulation maine successful congratulating Dr. Jacoby.
Sincerely yours,
Danny Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H., FACS
President
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