
Jeffrey R. Jacobsen, MD
Medical Director: Hematopathology
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.