Professor of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Jacob is a Professor of Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine and serves as Hospital Epidemiologist at Emory University Hospital Midtown. HIs research focuses on two major, related areas of healthcare epidemiology related to multi drug resistant pathogens: 1) understanding the risk factors for, and outcomes of, infections caused these organisms; and 2) preventing the transmission of these pathogens causing healthcare-associated infection, particularly environmental assessment and interventions.