Jerry Jacob, MD, MS

Infectious Diseases
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
MacGregor Infection Medicine and Travel Program
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control, Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Director of Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship, GSPP Rehabilitation
  • Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

Jerry Jacob MD, MS earned a BS in Economics from the Wharton School, and a BAS in biomedical science followed by an MD at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Pittsburgh followed by a fellowship in infectious Diseases at Temple University Hospital during which time he also earned an MS (Epidemiology).

Dr. Jacob is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at Penn and serves as Director of Infection Prevention & Antimicrobial Stewardship at GSPP Rehabilitation, including a long-term acute care hospital, an inpatient rehabilitation facility, and outpatient sites. Dr. Jacob also serves as Senior Physician Advisor to the Subacute & Therapy services division at Penn Medicine, and the Long-Term Care Resiliency, Infrastructure Supports, and Empowerment (RISE) program, a partnership between Penn Medicine, Temple Health, and the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Through the RISE program, Dr. Jacob has provided support for COVID-19 outbreak response and quality improvement programming for long-term care facilities across 8 counties in southeastern Pennsylvania.

My education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: UPMC Presbyterian
  • Fellowship: Temple University Hospital

Spoken languages

English
English
Malayalam
Malayalam

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Jacob is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Sara Keller, Jerry Jacob, Rachael Lee, Natalya Beneschott, Rebecca Stern Call to Action: Ambulatory Infection Prevention , Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology: 2026

Deepti R. Suchindran, Rachel L. Medernach, Lindsey J. Walker, Amanda Ashley, Cedar McCarthy, Asthon Self, Chris W. Bower, Ella V. Wetzel, Nidhi S. Undevia, Mary Carl Froilan, Aleksandra Kozicka, Lisa A. Duffner, Jerry Jacob, Hyungseok Oh, Pam Tolemeo, Anne Jaskowiak-Barr, Annie Taing, Sarah Lohsen, Sarah W. Satola, Wanying Shao, Samuel P. Rosen, Scott Evans, Mary K. Hayden, Scott Fridkin, Brendan J. Kelly, Michael Woodworth Interim Enrollment and Baseline Characteristics in the Response to Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance with Containment Microbiota Therapy (REACT) Randomized Trial in Long-Term Care , ID Week 2026: 2026

Galipean, Joseph, Jacob, Jerry Effectiveness and Feasibility of a Penicillin Allergy Delabeling Program in the Post-Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Setting , Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology: 2024

Walker C, Jacob J Reducing the Number of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections at an Acute Rehabilitation Hospital: A Quality Improvement Project , Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 19(1): 2023,1-3

Harrigan JJ, Hatem Abdallah H, Clarke EL, Oganisian A, Roy JA, Lautenbach E, Reesey E, Wernovsky M, Tolomeo P, Morawski Z, Jacob J, Grippi MA, Kelly BJ Respiratory Microbiome Disruption and Risk for Ventilator-associated Lower Respiratory Tract Infection , Clinical Infectious Diseases, 74(9): 2022,1564-1571

Dumm RE, Wing A, Richterman A, Jacob J, Glaser LJ, Rodino KG Closing The Brief Case: A Variant on a Classic-Abiotrophia defectiva Endocarditis with Discitis , Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 59(10): 2021,e03093-20

Galipean J, Jacob J Penicillin Allergy Delabeling Program in the Post-Acute Care Setting , ID week: 2021

Lo Re III V, Carbonari DM, Jacob J, Short WR, Leonard CE, Lyons JG, Kennedy A, Damon J, Haug N, Zhou EH, Graham DJ, McMahill-Walraven CN, Parlett LE, Nair V, Selvan M, Zhou Y, Pocobelli G, Maro JC, Nguyen MD Validity of ICD-10-CM Diagnoses to Identify Hospitalizations for Serious Infections Among Patients Treated tith Biologic Therapies , Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 30(7): 2021,899-909

Harrigan JJ, Abdallah H, Clarke EL, Lautenbach E, Reesey E, Wernovsky M, Tolomeo P, Morawski Z, Jacob J, Grippi MA, Kelly BJ Impact of Respiratory Staphylococcus Aureus Abundance on Risk for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia During Long-Term Care , ID Week: 2020

Jacob J, Morace A, Park J, Renzi N Preventing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Long-Term Acute Care , ID Week: 2019