Jeffrey R. Jacobsen, MD

Associate Professor (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine

Specialties

• Hematologic flow cytometry
• Pediatric hematopathology

Education

• Medical Degree—University of Illinois College of Medicine
• Residency—Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine
• Fellowship—Hematopathology, University of Utah School of Medicine

Current/Past Roles

• Section director, Hematology and Flow Cytometry Laboratories, Phoenix Children’s Hospital
• Medical director, Diagnostic and Translational Flow Cytometry Laboratory, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix
• Section director, Hematology, Immunopathology, and Flow Cytometry Laboratories, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Certification/Affiliations

• American Board of Pathology, Hematopathology
• American Board of Pathology, Anatomic Pathology
• American Board of Pathology, Clinical Pathology

Research Interests

• Clinical flow cytometry
• Role of immune composition in leukemia therapy

Awards

• 2014 Leadership Circle Award: Rapid Leukemia Diagnosis, Phoenix Children’s Hospital
• 2010 Stowell–Orbison Award Nominee, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP)
• 2007 Resident Research Award, ARUP Laboratories/University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT

Recent Publications

• Tvrdik T, et al. Clinical and cytogenomic features of lymphoblastic leukemia with intrachromosomal amplification of chromosome 21 (iAMP21) in the context of constitutional ring chromosome 21. Blood. 2019;134 (Supplement_1):5208.
• Szewc AM, et al. Acute liver failure in an adolescent male induced by human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6): A case report with literature review. Lab Med. 2018;49(2):165–74.
• Bapat A, et al. Myeloid disease mutations of splicing factor SRSF2 cause G2-M arrest and skewed differentiation of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Stem Cells. 2018;36(11):1663–75.
• Henry M, et al. Isolated central nervous system hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: a case series. Abstracts from the 34th annual meeting of the Histiocyte Society Lisbon, Portugal, October 22–23, 2018 [Abstract]. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018;Vol.66:20.