
Karen Rita Jacobson MD
Instructor, Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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725 Albany StShapiro 9, Suite BBoston, MA 02118
Phone+1 617-414-4290
Fax+1 617-414-4285
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Education & Training
Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women's HospitalFellowship, Infectious Disease, 2007 - 2009
Yale-New Haven Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 2002 - 2006
Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineClass of 2002
Certifications & Licensure
MA State Medical License 2006 - 2026
CT State Medical License 2005 - 2006
American Board of Internal Medicine Infectious Disease
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Uncovering household tuberculosis infection testing and care patterns using a novel bioinformatics linkage strategy.Jeffrey I Campbell, Meredith B Brooks, Jenine Dankovchik, Sophia Giebultowicz, Angelica Falkenstein
Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2026-02-11 - Curated cases from the TB expert network: Unplugged! Series: Use of plasma microbial cell-free DNA metagenomic sequencing to diagnose.Madeline Cohodes, Anmary Fernandez, David Ashkin, Caitlin Reed, Sarah Park
Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases. 2025-12-01 - An Integrated Data-Driven Model for Clinical Phenotyping of Tuberculosis Disease Severity.Samantha Malatesta, Karen R Jacobson, C Robert Horsburgh, Maha Farhat, Tara Carney
Medrxiv. 2025-11-27
Press Mentions
A Bellwether for COVID-19June 8th, 2022
The Checkup for July 17: With COVID-19 Case Numbers Rising, Gov. Baker Pushes for More Shots in ArmsJuly 16th, 2021
Keep an Eye on Breakthrough Covid-19 Cases. But Don’t Freak OutJuly 15th, 2021
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