Speakers


                                

    


Robert Jacobson, MD

Medical Director of Primary Care Immunization Program, Rochester, Kasson, and Southeast Minnesota, Co-Chair, AskMayoExpert Knowledge Content Board for Immunizations and Vaccinations, Mayo Clinic.

Robert is a Professor of Pediatrics at Mayo Clinic with appointments in Community Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and Epidemiology. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, and did his undergraduate studies at Butler University, got his medical degree at University of Chicago, and completed his pediatric residency at Yale University where he remained to complete the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program in quantitative clinical epidemiology.

Robert practices medicine as a primary care pediatrician at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; teaches research methods and evidence-based medicine to the faculty, pediatric residents, and pediatric sub-specialty fellows; and serves the 11-county area as the Medical Director for the Immunization Program for Mayo Clinic’s Primary Care in Southeast Minnesota and co-chair of the AskMayoExpert Immunizations & Vaccinations Knowledge Content Board.

Robert is a National Institutes of Health-funded investigator and conducts research to improve the uptake of vaccines. 

Robert has lived in worked in Rochester, Minnesota, for 35 years and, with his wife Renee, raised four well-vaccinated children.


More speakers to be announced shortly.

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