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Jerry Jacob, MD, MS

Jerry Jacob, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 

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Areas Of Expertise
Post-acute care
Clostridium difficile
Multi-drug resistant organisms
Device-associated infections

Recent Publications
Reducing the number of catheter-associated urinary tract infections at an inpatient rehabilitation facility: A quality improvement project
- Clayton R Walker
Closing The Brief Case: A Variant on a Classic-Abiotrophia defectiva Endocarditis with Discitis
- Rebekah E Dumm
The Brief Case: A Variant on a Classic-Abiotrophia defectiva Endocarditis with Discitis
- Rebekah E Dumm
Respiratory Microbiome Disruption and Risk for Ventilator-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Infection
- James J Harrigan
Validity of ICD-10-CM diagnoses to identify hospitalizations for serious infections among patients treated with biologic therapies
- Vincent Lo Re

Jerry Jacob, MD, MS, BAS (Biomedical Science) University Of Pennsylvania School Of Engineering And Applied Science, Philadelphia, PA, 2004. BSE (Finance Concentration) University Of Pennsylvania Wharton School Of Business, Philadelphia, PA, 2004. MD (Medicine) University Of Pennsylvania Raymond And Ruth Perelman School Of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 2008. MS (Epidemiology) Temple University, Department Of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, 2016.

Projects

Secondary Infections and Antibiotic Resistance in Post-Acute Care Patients with Recent COVID-19 Infection