Richard Jacobs , M.D., Ph.D.
Acting Division Co-Chief
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacy
jacobs@medicine.ucsf.edu

Mailing Address:
University of California, San Francisco
Division of Infectious Diseases
521 Parnassus Avenue, Room C-443
San Francisco, CA 94143-0654

Office Location:
Clinical Sciences Building, C-443

Research Interests:
Surgical Infectious Diseases—particularly orthopedics and neurosurgical

Select Publications:

Quinones-Hinjosa A, Jun P, Jacobs R, Rosenberg WS, Weinstein PR.  General principles in the medical and surgical management of spinal infections: a multidisciplinary approach.  Neurosurg Focus17:1-15, 2004

Husain S, Alexander BD, Munoz P, Avery RK, Houston S, Pruett T, Jacobs R, Dominguez EA, Tollemar JG, Baumgarten K, Yu CM, Wagener MM, Linden P, Kusne S, Singh N.  Opportunistic mycelial fungal infections in organ transplant recipient:  emerging importance of non-aspergillus mycelial fungi.  Clin Infect Dis 37:221-229, 2003.

Guglielmo BJ, Luber AD, Paletta Jr D, Jacobs RA.  Ceftriaxone therapy for staphylococcal osteomyelitis: a review.  Clin Infect Dis 30:205-207, 2000.

Gandhi M and Jacobs R.  Septic Arthritis and Disseminated Gonococcal Infection in Current Rheumatology Diagnosis and Treatment (Imboden J, Hellmann DB and Stone JH, Eds) McGraw Hill, Chapter 45, p327; 2004.

Jacobs RA.  Anti-infective, Chemotherapeutic and Antibiotic Agents in Current Medical Diagnosis and Therapy (Tierney LM, Jr., McPhee SJ, Papadakis MA, Eds.) McGraw Hill, Chapter 37, p. 1500; 1990-2005.  (Yearly update.  Co-authored with B. Joseph Guglielmo Pharm D, 1997-2004)

Education and Training:

MD, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, 1968-1974

Internship/Residency/Chief Residency, University of California, San Francisco, 1974-1978

Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 1978-1980