Dr. Steven J JacobsenSteven J. Jacobsen, MD, PhD President, American College of Epidemiology Dr. Jacobsen recently retired as Director of Research for Kaiser Permanente Southern California where he had oversight of the research programs in the Southern California Region, including the Department of Research & Evaluation and the infrastructure that supports those programs. The research programs encompassed a broad range of clinical, epidemiologic and health services research that capitalized on the rich research resources in the region, including its 4 million diverse members. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, Dr. Jacobsen was Professor and Chair of the Division of Epidemiology in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. He played an active role in teaching and mentoring in the Medical School, Clinical Research Training Program and the Clinical Research Scholars Program. Dr. Jacobsen is a chronic disease epidemiologist with a long-standing interest in men’s urological health, cardiovascular diseases, developmental disorders and vaccines. He established a new program in vaccine safety while at Kaiser Permanente where he served as the site Principal Investigator for the Vaccine Safety Datalink and led several FDA mandated/required post-licensure vaccine safety studies. Dr. Jacobsen has extensive experience in developing research infrastructure at the project, departmental and institutional level. While at Mayo Clinic, he provided oversight for development of numerous user-friendly tools to expedite population-based research that supported over 400 publications during his leadership of the Rochester Epidemiology Project. He led numerous initiatives to improve the quality of research within the division, including the centralization of oversight and training of research support staff and active internal peer-review programs in his division. He also was a founding and active member of the Clinical Research Subcommittee, which had oversight of clinical research infrastructure at Mayo Clinic. At Kaiser Permanente, he grew the Department from a group of 7 scientists and 56 total staff to having more than 30 scientists and over 400 staff. The annual expenditures paralleled this growth, from $12M in 2006 to nearly $80M in 2020 with the majority coming from extramural funding. Dr. Jacobsen received his MD and an MS in biostatistics from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and his PhD in Public Health Sciences (Epidemiology) from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has authored or co-authored more than 500 papers in the peer-reviewed literature and has served on numerous editorial boards and NIH study sections and panels.
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