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, Schafernak KT, Jacobsen JR, 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, Taylor S, Cage GD, 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):165-174.
• Bapat A, Keita N, Martelly W, 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):1663-1675.
• Henry M, Julien D, Williams JA, 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. 20109; 66 Suppl 1:e27548.