Lee Jacobs MD

Dr. Lee Jacobs graduated from the University of Vermont in 1973 and completed a medical residency and infectious disease fellowship by 1980 at UMASS in Worcester, Mass. In between the training programs, he was a USAF flight surgeon from 1975 to 1977. In 1980, Dr. Jacobs moved to Hawaii to join the Hawaii Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser Permanente). He left Hawaii in 1985 to become one of the founding physicians of The Southeast Permanente Medical Group in Atlanta 1985. Since 2008, he has been an Associate Medical Director with Vanter Cruise Health Services, who contract with Disney and Crystal Cruise Lines.

Since 2013, Jacobs has been the Medical Director of Bethesda Community Clinic, a non-profit safety-net clinic for the uninsured. In 2015, Dr. Jacobs founded Bethesda Referral & Teaching Hospital, a non-profit Christian organization founded to construct a child and maternal hospital in Haiti. He is the co-author of Going Prepared, a book on preparing individuals, churches, and organizations for overseas mission experiences.