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Joseph O. Jacobson

Joseph O. Jacobson MD, MSc

Oncology, Hematology Blood and Marrow Transplant, Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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Joe Jacobson serves as Chief Quality Officer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute where he is responsible for patient safety and quality of care in the principal disciplines of oncology at the main institution and its network programs. He is trained in Medical Oncology and Hematology, holds a Masters degree in epidemiology, and completed advanced training at the Intermountain Healthcare Institute for Healthcare Delivery Research. He has practiced extensively in both academic and community settings. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Joe is committed to creating innovations in quality of care and patient safety. As Chief Quality Officer at the DFCI, he is engaged in multiple projects locally, regionally and nationally to define and improve care delivery by applying the tools of quality improvement. For over five years, he co-led a five-month project-based training program at Partners HealthCare that has trained hundreds of clinicians in how to undertake quality improvement. He currently mentors physicians and other clinicians in quality improvement and patient safety, develops systems to measure, standardize and improve care, and continues to create the needed capacity for broad training in quality improvement leadership locally and nationally.
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