Sir Michael Graham Jacobs (born 18 January 1964) is a British

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

and the incumbent Warden of

Keble College, Oxford Keble College () is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University Museum a ...

. He has been a

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in infectious diseases at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust since 2000.

Early life and education

Born in 1964,"Jacobs, Sir Michael (Graham), (born 18 Jan. 1964), Warden, Keble College, Oxford, since 2022, Kt 2016; PhD, Warden, Keble College, Oxford, since 2022"
''Who's Who (UK), Who's Who'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2020). Retrieved 26 January 2021. Jacobs studied medicine at St John's College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, BA in 1985, and then completed his medical degrees at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School in 1988.

Career

Jacobs worked in London hospitals between 1988 and 1990, then in Cambridge between 1990 and 1991, before returning to London as the medical Specialty registrar, registrar at Ealing Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital (1991–94). Between 1994 and 1998, he was a Wellcome Trust, Wellcome Research Training Fellow; he completed a Doctor of Philosophy, PhD at Imperial College London, which was awarded in 2000. He was a specialist registrar in infectious and tropical diseases at Northwick Park Hospital (1998–99) and then a specialist registrar in infectious diseases and general medicine at Hammersmith Hospital until 2000. That year, he was a registrar at Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital, St Thomas's Hospital. Since 2000, he has been a

in infectious diseases at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. Jacobs led the Royal Free London Trust's specialist infectious disease team when they treated three Britons with Ebola during the Western African Ebola virus epidemic, West Africa Ebola virus epidemic (2013–16); all of them survived. In recognition of this work, he was Knight Bachelor, knighted in the 2016 New Year Honours, "for services to the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases". In November 2021, Jacobs was announced as Warden-Elect (next "Head of House") of

to take up the role from the start of the 2022–2023 academic year. Jacobs assumed his Wardenship at the start of Michaelmas term 2022.

Honours

*Knight Bachelor, 2016

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobs, Michael Living people 1964 births British infectious disease physicians Knights Bachelor Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Wardens of Keble College, Oxford Alumni of Imperial College London Alumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital