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Professor Peter Jacobs

Professor Peter Jacobs

POSTGRADUATE EXPERIENCE:

1963 - 1967: Clinical Tutorial Registrar, Department of Medicine, Johannesburg General Hospital and University of Witwatersrand

1967 - 1969: Senior Research Fellow in Haematology and Instructor in Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A. Director, Division of Haematology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital and King County Medical Care, University of Washington

1970 - 1972: Full-time Consultant and Therapeutic Trials Physician, University of Witwatersrand and Johannesburg General Hospital

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

1972 - 1994: Foundation Professor of Haematology, University of Cape Town; Chief Specialist and Consultant Haematologist, Groote Schuur Hospital Teaching Group, Cape Town; Director, University of Cape town Leukaemia Centre; Rotating Chairman, Division of Pathology, University of Cape Town.

1995: Emeritus Professor of Haematology, University of Cape Town

1996: Honorary Professor of Haematology, University of Stellenbosch and Tygerberg Academic Hospital

2001: Professor of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Centre

CONCURRENT APPOINTMENTS:

1995 - 1997: Director, Haematology Clinic and Bone Marrow Transplant Centre, Wynberg Hospital, Cape Town

1998: Head, Department of Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic, Plumstead, Cape Town. Director, Searll Research Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Biology.

2003: Foundation Professor and Head, Division of Clinical Haematology - Department of Internal Medicine, Health Sciences Faculty, Stellenbosch University in Tygerberg Academic Hospital.  

Prolific author (including 232 original scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals); Visiting Professor to many prestigious academic institutions in Europe and the United States of America

As a volunteer consultant to the UMC, he reviews the results of the regular computerised screenings of ADR reports within the System Organ Classes of neoplasm, red blood cell disorders, white cell and res. disorders and platelet, bleeding and clotting disorders.

E-mail: haematol@icon.co.za


Peter Jacobs page last updated 8 February 2009