Mark Jacobson is the founder and former director of the dermatopathology fellowship program and associate professor of dermatology and pathology at Montefiore Medical Center (MMC) and Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) in the Bronx, New York. After graduating from the University of Witwatersrand Medical School in Johannesburg, South Africa, and residency in pathology at Long Island Jewish hospital in New York City, he trained in dermatopathology at New York University Medical Center (NYUMC) with A. Bernard Ackerman MD.

After completing fellowship training in 1989, he remained as associate director of dermatopathology at NYUMC until 1992 after which he left to join AECOM and Pathology Associates of New York (now Dermpath Diagnostics), where he remained as senior managing director until December 2017.

Dr. Jacobson has authored and co-authored many publications in respected peer-reviewed journals as well as a book, Clues to Diagnosis in Dermatopathology I, along with A.Bernard Ackerman MD and Patricia Vitale MD. He has also presented, along with his trainees, numerous platform and poster presentations at national and international meetings of dermatopathology societies i.e.the American Society of Dermatopathology (ASDP) and the International Society of Dermatopathology. He developed and ran a consultation course, “The Titanic” at the American Society of Dermatopathology and also created the Michael Fisher Clinico-Pathologic Conference Series at AECOM/MMC.

Dr. Jacobson has been an invited speaker and/or participant to notable dermatology meetings including the American Academy of Dermatology and the Atlantic Dermatology Society.

He is currently the co-owner of Bridge Dermatopathology Services, PLLC. in Tarrytown, New York and consultant dermatopathologist at Englewood Hospital, New Jersey and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx,New York.