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Meghan Jobson

Meghan Jobson MD, PhD

Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Internal Medicine
San Francisco, California, United States of America

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Dr. Meghan Jobson is an internist with specialized training in integrative and palliative medicine. She is also a neuroscientist and a practicing movement instructor. Dr. Jobson has a personal connection to this work, as a person who survives and thrives with a chronic long illness. In her clinical work, she combines her diverse training in exercise and movement, nutrition, conventional medicine, neuroscience, and integrative medicine. With these interwoven techniques, she creates custom approaches to improving and maintaining the quality of life of her patients. She earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Utah and her medical degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is a recipient of the Leonard Toy Humanism in Medicine Award from the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Her areas of interest include disability justice, social determinants of health, and the effects of exercise and nutrition on chronic and serious illness. She has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals.