The UCSF AIDS Research Institute has announced that Mark Jacobson, MD, is the recipient of the 2012 Sarlo Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Established in 1999 through the generosity of George Sarlo and the Sarlo Family Foundation and administered through the Sarlo Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund, this $5000 award goes each year to a member of the campus community who has performed extraordinary service in teaching junior faculty, fellows, residents, and students involved in HIV/AIDS research and clinical care.
Dr. Jacobson is a clinical professor in UCSF’s HIV/AIDS Division within the Department of Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital, where he is also an attending physician and director of urgent care services at the Positive Health Clinic. Dr. Jacobson is also medical director of the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Clinical Research Center at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
To quote from one of his nomination letters, “Mark is truly an icon and a living legend at San Francisco General Hospital.” Having joined the ID and HIV/AIDS Division faculty in 1986, “he is best known for his accomplishments in researching the complications of AIDS…however, his significant contributions in the teaching arena are equally impressive and have been growing in the past five years, as he has shifted his focus at UCSF to more of a clinician-educator role.”