Joshua
L. Jacobs, M.D.
Joshua
L. Jacobs, M.D, is currently directing curriculum development using medical
informatics at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii.
Since 1997, Dr. Jacobs has been involved in several projects in medical informatics.
Currently, he serves as a co-Principal Investigator for project TOUCH, a collaboration
among the University of Hawaii, University of New Mexico, the Maui High Performance
Computing Center, Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center, and the National
Foundation for Functional Brain Imaging. Together, the collaborators are developing
a prototype educational system to demonstrate the feasibility of employing
advanced computing methods to enhance education in a problem-based learning
format, and deploying these via Internet 2 to remote communities.
Dr. Jacobs continues to serve as an attending physician at a primary care
clinic, providing direct patient care services. His interests include health
outcomes research with a focus on the clinical application of information
technology, and effective methods of teaching healthcare professionals how
to use medical informatics effectively as a tool to help their research and
patient care activities.
Dr. Jacobs is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association, the
American Telemedicine Association, a Diplomat with the National Board of Medical
Examiners, and is Board Certified with the American Board of Family Medicine.
