Dr. Lee Jacobs was one of the founding physicians of The Southeast Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser Permanente) in Atlanta in 1985, and was a medical director and practicing internist and infectious disease physician with the Medical Group until his retirement in 2007. Since 1997 he has been the Associate Editor-in-Chief for The Permanente Journal.
In 1992, Dr. Jacobs founded Central Asian Partners, Inc., a nonprofit organization that partnered with the Minister of Health in Kyrgyzstan to assist this new nation in improving health care throughout the country.
Dr. Jacobs is the Executive Director of Bethesda Referral & Teaching Hospital, Inc., a 225-bed private nonprofit specialty hospital to be constructed at Port Lafito, Haiti. In addition to providing specialty care for referred patients, a major strategy of this hospital is to support the collaboration of local government and non-governmental agencies to improve access to preventative and primary care services in communities throughout the country. The first phase focuses on child and maternal care in order to address the high child and maternal death rates – the highest in the western hemisphere.
He is the co-author of a book on missions – Going Prepared.
He lives in Acworth, Georgia, is married to Deb Jacobs and has three children and two granddaughters.
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