Biography

Douglas S. Jacoby, MD, FACC, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as the medical director of the Penn Medicine Center for Preventive Cardiology at the Philadelphia Heart Institute, where he has developed a program that focuses on assessing and reducing all aspects of cardiovascular risk. Dr. Jacoby received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and completed residency and a cardiology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. His clinical interests involve more accurately assessing cardiovascular risk, especially in patients with a family history of heard disease or unique risk factors such as radiation therapy.

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