Medical Director
New Destiny Treatment Center
A graduate of Seattle Pacific University and Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. Jacobson began his medical career by completing a family medicine residency at Martin Army Hospital. After training, he remained on faculty and as a flight surgeon with a Black Hawk Medevac unit (498th Air Ambulance Co.), commanding Fort Benning’s Aviation Medicine Clinic. He finished his military tour at Fort Campbell (KY), then separated from the Army in 1992. Three years later, Dr. Jacobson became Medical Director to both a national private cost-sharing network and to a faith-based residential addiction treatment program, where he also became certified in addiction medicine (2004) and launched a successful outpatient opioid treatment program (2005).
In 2006, Dr. Jacobson was recruited back to active duty in the USAF, deploying as a flight surgeon to the Middle East. In leadership positions as a flight commander and Chief of Medical Staff, Dr. Jacobson overhauled multiple flight and executive medicine programs at Langley and Whiteman AFB, playing key roles in Outstanding and Excellent scores on Operational Readiness and Health Services Inspections. In 2013, Colonel Jacobson became the inaugural Director for the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine’s Operational Graduate Medical Education (OGME) program. Before his retirement in 2019, Colonel Jacobson’s vision, creativity, and unique ability to build collaborative alliances expanded OGME from 3 residents and 1 affiliation to 55 residents, 4 specialties, and 15 military and civilian affiliates, resulting in a novel training pipeline slated to deliver over 25 board-certified flight surgeons to the field each year.
Dr. Jacobson has authored two books, has a Master’s in Public Health, and is board certified in family, addiction, aerospace, and occupational medicine. A resident of West Chester, Ohio, Dr. Jacobson has been married for over 37 years to his wife Susie. They have 3 children and eight grandchildren.
