Ira Jacobson MD

Ira Jacobson, MD is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. After receiving his BS summa cum laude from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and his MD from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, Dr. Jacobson completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is board-certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. 

In addition to maintaining an active practice with a focus on patients with liver disease, Dr. Jacobson has been an investigator in many trials on antiviral therapy for hepatitis B and C, including most of the pivotal trials on interferon-based therapy since the 1980s, and was the principal investigator of the WIN-R trial, the largest trial performed to date on HCV therapy. 

A prolific researcher, Dr. Jacobson has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in numerous top-tier publications including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and Gastroenterology. He has edited two books on endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and a volume on hepatitis B for Clinics in Liver Disease. Additionally, he has served as an associate editor of the Journal of Hepatology, and on the editorial boards of Hepatology, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Digestive Diseases and Sciences.