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Danny O. Jacobs, MD, MPH David C. Sabiston Jr Professor and Chair Department of Surgery at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina JNMA is featuring a series on African Americans holding endowed chairs in American medical schools in recognition of the outstanding accomplishments of these very special people. These chairs are usually funded from generous benefactors and may include grateful patients or parents of patients (children), executives from the business world and industry, foundations, anonymous donors and even faculty members. The common denominator amongst these philanthropists is to recognize the institution for the opportunities afforded them in some way as a way of “giving back” to insure that the school can continue to recruit the most talented individuals to the institution. Some states also provide matching funds for successful endowment campaigns being sponsored by their universities and, under some circumstances, federal matching funds may be made available for this purpose. We have more than a dozen endowed chairs amongst our HBCU medical institutions, which will also be included in this series.
Keyword: endowed professorships, African Americans J Natl Med Assoc. 2010;102:844-845 Author Affiliation: Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. Correspondence: Janna Sellers, Staff Assistant, Chairman’s Office, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, DUMC Box 3704, HAFS Building, Durham, NC 27710 ([email protected]).
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r Danny O. Jacobs was born in 1954 in Camden, Arkansas. He was recruited as a sophomore to attend The Mountain School in Vershire, Vermont, where he completed his high school education. He earned a bachelor of arts in biology in 1975 from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, and his medical degree in 1979 from Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. Dr Jacobs completed his internship and residency training in surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, where he spent 2 years as a Harrison research fellow and was chief resident during his final year. He began his academic career at Harvard Medical School in 1989 as assistant professor of surgery and was promoted to associate professor of surgery in 1993. During this time, he earned a master of public health from the Harvard University School of Public Health and received a Robert Wood Johnson Medical Faculty Development Award. He became associate program director of Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Clinical Research Center; chief of the Metabolic Support Service; and director of the Laboratory for Surgical Metabolism and Nutrition, which was founded by Dr Francis D. Moore. In 2000, Dr Jacobs was appointed professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. He was named the Arnold W. Lempka Distinguished Professor of Surgery in 2001. 844 JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Dr Jacobs joined Duke in February 2003 as professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery. In 2007, he was named the second holder of the David C. Sabiston Jr Professorship, a highly desired accolade created in memory of David C. Sabiston Jr, former chair of the Department of Surgery. Dr Jacobs currently holds many leadership roles within Duke Medicine. As the chair of the Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) board of directors, a physician organization with more than 1000 members, he is a key decision maker for the Duke multidisciplinary faculty group practice. He is the chair of the PDC affairs committee, sits on the Duke University Health System board of directors, and he serves as the executive director of the American College of Surgeons Comprehensive Education Institute at the School of Medicine. Dr Jacobs is a member of the Duke Cancer Research Institute VOL. 102, NO. 9, SEPTEMBER 2010
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internal advisory board, as well as the Medical Scientist Training Program Executive Committee. Dr Jacobs has served on more than 20 prestigious editorial boards—presently, the New England Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and World Journal of Surgery. He is a member of numerous honorific and academic societies, including the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, the American College of Surgeons, the Society of University Surgeons, the Halsted Society, the American Surgical Association, the American Physiological Society, the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, the
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Southern Surgical Association, the American Society of Nutritional Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2001. Dr Jacobs’ laboratory studies the effects of critical illness and malnutrition on cellular bioenergetics. His clinical interests span the breadth of general and gastrointestinal surgery. He has a special interest in treating patients with nutritional or metabolic diseases that are amenable to surgical treatment, including the morbidly obese and those with intestinal fistulas.
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Danny O. Jacobs, MD, MPH David C. Sabiston Jr Professor and Chair Department of Surgery at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina JNMA is featuring a series on African Americans holding endowed chairs in American medical schools in recognition of the outstanding accomplishments of these very special people. These chairs are usually funded from generous benefactors and may include grateful patients or parents of patients (children), executives from the business world and industry, foundations, anonymous donors and even faculty members. The common denominator amongst these philanthropists is to recognize the institution for the opportunities afforded them in some way as a way of “giving back” to insure that the school can continue to recruit the most talented individuals to the institution. Some states also provide matching funds for successful endowment campaigns being sponsored by their universities and, under some circumstances, federal matching funds may be made available for this purpose. We have more than a dozen endowed chairs amongst our HBCU medical institutions, which will also be included in this series.
Keyword: endowed professorships, African Americans J Natl Med Assoc. 2010;102:844-845 Author Affiliation: Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. Correspondence: Janna Sellers, Staff Assistant, Chairman’s Office, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, DUMC Box 3704, HAFS Building, Durham, NC 27710 ([email protected]).
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r Danny O. Jacobs was born in 1954 in Camden, Arkansas. He was recruited as a sophomore to attend The Mountain School in Vershire, Vermont, where he completed his high school education. He earned a bachelor of arts in biology in 1975 from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, and his medical degree in 1979 from Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. Dr Jacobs completed his internship and residency training in surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, where he spent 2 years as a Harrison research fellow and was chief resident during his final year. He began his academic career at Harvard Medical School in 1989 as assistant professor of surgery and was promoted to associate professor of surgery in 1993. During this time, he earned a master of public health from the Harvard University School of Public Health and received a Robert Wood Johnson Medical Faculty Development Award. He became associate program director of Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Clinical Research Center; chief of the Metabolic Support Service; and director of the Laboratory for Surgical Metabolism and Nutrition, which was founded by Dr Francis D. Moore. In 2000, Dr Jacobs was appointed professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. He was named the Arnold W. Lempka Distinguished Professor of Surgery in 2001. 844 JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Dr Jacobs joined Duke in February 2003 as professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery. In 2007, he was named the second holder of the David C. Sabiston Jr Professorship, a highly desired accolade created in memory of David C. Sabiston Jr, former chair of the Department of Surgery. Dr Jacobs currently holds many leadership roles within Duke Medicine. As the chair of the Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) board of directors, a physician organization with more than 1000 members, he is a key decision maker for the Duke multidisciplinary faculty group practice. He is the chair of the PDC affairs committee, sits on the Duke University Health System board of directors, and he serves as the executive director of the American College of Surgeons Comprehensive Education Institute at the School of Medicine. Dr Jacobs is a member of the Duke Cancer Research Institute VOL. 102, NO. 9, SEPTEMBER 2010
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internal advisory board, as well as the Medical Scientist Training Program Executive Committee. Dr Jacobs has served on more than 20 prestigious editorial boards—presently, the New England Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and World Journal of Surgery. He is a member of numerous honorific and academic societies, including the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, the American College of Surgeons, the Society of University Surgeons, the Halsted Society, the American Surgical Association, the American Physiological Society, the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, the
JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Southern Surgical Association, the American Society of Nutritional Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2001. Dr Jacobs’ laboratory studies the effects of critical illness and malnutrition on cellular bioenergetics. His clinical interests span the breadth of general and gastrointestinal surgery. He has a special interest in treating patients with nutritional or metabolic diseases that are amenable to surgical treatment, including the morbidly obese and those with intestinal fistulas.
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