Jonathan S. Jacobs, MD

Dr. Jacobs completed The University of Rochester in 1968 and attended Harvard School of Dental Medicine where he graduated cum laude in 1971. He then completed medical school, a combined residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery and trained in general surgery at Vanderbilt University from 1971 through 1975. He remained at Vanderbilt as the Acting Chairman of the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery until 1977 when he moved to Virginia Beach to complete a residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Eastern Virginia Graduate School of Medicine.

He has been practicing Plastic Surgery in the Hampton Roads area for the last 25 years and has been on the faculty of our medical school that entire time. Locally, he also volunteers as an interviewer for candidates for admission to Eastern Virginia Medical School and was Chairman of the Surgical Executive Committee at Sentara Leigh Hospital for seven years He is Associate Professor of Clinical Plastic Surgery at EVMS. He has published 47 scientific papers and book chapters and has contributed substantially to the medical literature.

He is very active in our state and national plastic surgical organizations. He is Past President of the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons, and he is Past President of the Virginia Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. He has been the Membership Chairman of The American Society of Temporomandibular Joint Surgeons, and he has served on the Board of Directors for The American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. He has served as chairman of the ethics committee for that organization, the largest group of Plastic Surgeons in the world.

He is Board Certified in both Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and has acted as a guest examiner for The American Board of Plastic Surgeons. 

He is senior surgeon for a yearly trip to Honduras for the International Hospital for Children and has volunteered surgical care and teaching in third world countries on more than twenty such trips. His current interests are in cosmetic and breast surgery, and he brings special expertise to Associates in Plastic Surgery in regard to maxillofacial surgery.