Associate Medical Director
Florida Professionals Resource Network, Florida
William S. Jacobs, M.D, Associate Medical Director Florida Professionals Resource Network and Professor Medical College of Georgia is triple board certified in Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, and Addiction Medicine. A Magna Cum Laude University of Georgia undergraduate and graduate of the Medical College of Georgia, Dr. Jacobs did his Anesthesiology Residency at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He had a 13 year career as a private practitioner in anesthesiology and pain management before matriculating to UF for his Addiction Medicine Fellowship, after which he remained as faculty. After his promotion to Associate Professor, he left academia and started NexStep Integrated Pain Care Inc., a model outpatient program for the treatment of patients with both chronic pain and addiction disorders. He returned to the University of Florida full time as Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine: Co-Chief of Pain Medicine in 2012.
In 2014 Dr Jacobs returned to his Alma Mater the Medical College of Georgia to become the first Chief of Addiction Medicine and was later promoted to Professor.
In 2019 Dr Jacobs became the Associate Medical Director for Florida Professionals Resource Network, the state's impaired practitioners program.
Dr. Jacobs has been a national expert, testifying on Capitol Hill on MDMA and prescription misuse and abuse. Dr Jacobs has also testified and consulted for the DEA on safe prescribing of narcotic drugs and the model of ideal treatment programs. Dr. Jacobs has been the Medical Director of non-profit, profit, and academic chemical dependency and dual diagnosis programs.
Dr. Jacobs is the author of peer reviewed scientific papers, abstracts, textbook chapters including the ASAM and APA definitive substance use volumes, and practice guidelines including highly cited studies on mitigating opioid abuse in chronic pain treatment, physician recovery, naltrexone, and urine drug testing.
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Thursday, March 31, 2022
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM ET
Thursday, March 31, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET
Thursday, March 31, 2022
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM ET
