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Dr. Terry Jacobson is a professor of medicine and the current director of the Office of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He also serves as co-director of the Lipid and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Program at Grady Health Systems in Atlanta. Dr. Jacobson currently serves on the National Advisory Board of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Board of the Southeast Lipid Association, and the National Lipid Association Task Force on Drug Safety. He is an elected fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the American Heart Association Council of Epidemiology and Prevention. He also is a founding member of the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health Foundation and currently serves on its board of directors.

Dr. Jacobson has clinical and research expertise in hyperlipidemia, the nutrition and drug management of hypercholesterolemia, coronary heart disease (CHD) risk reduction, and translation of cardiovascular prevention into practice. Dr. Jacobson has lectured and published extensively in the field of hypercholesterolemia, CHD risk modification, cost-effectiveness, lipid drug safety, and the dietary and pharmacologic treatment of hyperlipidemia. Since 1990, he has published numerous articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Cardiology, Archives of Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, the American Journal of Medicine, Current Opinion in Lipidology, and others.

Dr. Jacobson is a graduate of Cornell University and Cornell University Medical College and completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar's Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.