Dr. George B. Jacobs, MD, FACS, FICS

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Get to know Neurosurgeon Dr. George B. Jacobs, who served patients at the Bay Pines Veterans Administration in Florida.

An esteemed professional in the field of neurological surgery, Dr. Jacobs provided surgical treatments for a range of conditions affecting the nervous system. He was recently affiliated with the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System.

The Bay Pines VA Healthcare System is a level 1a, tertiary care facility headquartered in Bay Pines, Florida. Originally opened in 1933, the main medical center is located on 337 acres situated on the Gulf of Mexico approximately eight miles northwest of downtown Saint Petersburg, Fla. Co-located on the medical center campus are a VA Regional Office and a National Cemetery. This area is part of Tampa Bay, the second most populated metropolitan area in the state. The healthcare system operates nine facilities to include the main medical center in Bay Pines and outpatient clinics located in the Florida cities of Bradenton, Cape Coral, Naples, Palm Harbor, Port Charlotte, Sarasota, St. Petersburg, and Sebring. The medical center and its outpatient clinics serve Veterans residing in 10 counties in central southwest Florida to include Charlotte, Collier, Desoto, Hardee, Highlands, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pinellas and Sarasota. 

Every year, the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System serves more than 108,000 Veterans while providing a full range of high quality medical, psychiatric, and extended care services in outpatient, inpatient, residential, nursing home, and home care settings. The system is the 4th busiest VA healthcare system in the country in regards to patients treated or served.

The doctor’s acclaimed career in medicine began after he earned his medical degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University in 1958. He then went on to perform his internship and residency in neurological surgery at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi in 1959 and 1961, respectively. He followed this up with additional residencies in neurological surgery at Montefiore Medical Center in 1963 and at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi in 1964. 

With over six decades of experience in the medical field, Dr. Jacobs is board-certified through the American Board of Neurological Surgery (ABNS). The broad aim of the ABNS is to encourage the study, improve the practice, elevate the standards and advance the science of neurological surgery and thereby serve the cause of public health.

Maintaining fellowship status, he is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), a Fellow of the Scoliosis Research Society (FSRS) and a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons (FICS). He is also a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Cervical Spine Research Society and the Florida Neurosurgical Society. Dr Jacobs is Emeritus Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery of the Hackensack University Medical Center of Rutgers University NJ Medical School.

Neurosurgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system. Neurosurgeons are doctors who diagnose and treat problems with the nervous system, often by performing surgery on the brain or spine. They treat strokes, tumors, cervical and lumbar disc disease, infections, and head or spinal cord injuries.

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