Background
Jacobs, Peter was born on March 21, 1934 in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Son of Wilhelm Cornelius Coenraad and Marie Catherine Jacobs.
educator hematologist medical researcher scientist
Jacobs, Peter was born on March 21, 1934 in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Son of Wilhelm Cornelius Coenraad and Marie Catherine Jacobs.
Bachelor of Medicine BCh, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1959. Doctor of Medicine, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1974.
Registrar Johannesburg General Hospital, 1961—1963, clinical tutorial registrar, 1963—1967. Senior research bursar University Witwatersrand, 1961—1966, therapeutics trial physician, 1970—1972. Senior research fellow hematology University Washington, Seattle, 1967—1969.
Foundation professor hematology University Cape Town, 1972—1994, honorary professor hematology South Africa, 1972—2008, professor emeritus department hematologay, since 1995. Professor Stellenbosch U.-Tygerberg Academy Hospital, head division clinical hematology. Honorary consultant Groote Schuur Hospital Teaching Group, South Africa, 1995.
Dir hematology clinical and bone marrow transplant center Wynberg Hospital, Cape Town, 1995—1997. Honorary consultant University Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1996. Honorary professor University Tygerberg Academy Hospital, South Africa, 1996.
Head department hematology and bone marrow transplant unit Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic, Cape Town, 1998. Professor international medicine University Nebraska Medical Center, 2001. Invited speaker and lecturer in field.
Fellow: Academy Haemostasis and Thrombosis, American Society Clinical Pathologists, Royal College Physicians, American College Physicians, Royal College Pathologists, Royal Society South Africa. Member: World Health Organization (honorary consultant), Southern African Society Hematology (president-elect 1979, president 1980-1981), British Medical Association, South African Bone Marrow Donor Registry, South African Lymphoma Study Group, South African Society Medical Oncology, New York Academy of Sciences, American Society Clinical Oncologists, American Association Cancer Research, Royal Society South Africa, International Society Experimental Hematology, European Reticuloendothelial Society, Royal Society Medicine, European Society Haemapheresis (director 1984), College American Pathologists.
Married Margaret Ann Botbyl, January 21, 1961. Children: Sean Keiran, Wayne Clinton.