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Mark Jacobson, MD

Mark A. Jacobson, MD
UCSF Professor of Medicine in Residence

Attending Physician and Director of Urgent Care Services Positive Health Practice, San Francisco General Hospital

Medical Director, UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute Clinical Research Center at San Francisco General Hospital

Research Interests
CMV- and HIV-specific protective immune responses, HIV-related immune reconstitution disease, CMV vaccine development, AIDS-related opportunistic infections

Select Publications

1) Jacobson MA, Sinclair E, Bredt B, Agrillo L, Black D, Epling CL, Carvidi A, Ho T, Bains R, Girling V, Adler S. Safety and immunogenicity of Towne cytomegalovirus vaccine with or without adjuvant recombinant interleukin-12. Vaccine 2006;24:5311-9.
2) Sinclair E, Tan QX, Sharp M, Girling V, Poon C, Natta MV, Jabs DA, Inokuma M, Maecker HT, Bredt B, Jacobson MA; Studies of Ocular Complications of AIDS Research Group. Protective Immunity to Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Retinitis in AIDS Is Associated with CMV-Specific T Cells That Express Interferon- gamma and Interleukin-2 and Have a CD8+ Cell Early Maturational Phenotype. Journal of Infect Diseases 2006;194:1537-46.
3) Jacobson MA, Maecker HT, Orr PL, D'Amico R, Van Natta M, Li XD, Pollard RB, Bredt BM. Results of a CMV-Specific CD8+/IFNy+ Cytokine Flow Cytometry Assay Correlate with Clinical Evidence of Protective Immunity in AIDS Patients with CMV Retinitis. Journal of Infectious Diseases 2004;189:1362-73.
4) Jacobson MA, Khayam-Bashi H, Black D, Martin JN, Ng V. Effect of long-term, highly active antiretroviral therapy in restoring HIV-induced abnormal B lymphocyte function. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology 2002;31:472-7.

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Education & Training

BA, University of California, Berkeley, 1971

MD, University of California San Francisco 1981

Internal Medicine Residency, Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Oakland, CA, 1981 - 1984

Infectious Diseases Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles, 1984 - 1986