Steven Jacobsohn, M.D., is Professor Emeritus, Gastroenterology, at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center.

He received his medical degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate College of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn and at UCLA. He then completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at UCSF. While serving in the Army, he co-directed the gastroenterology fellowship program at William Beaumont Medical Center in El Paso, Texas.

Dr. Jacobsohn spent 34 years in the full-time practice of gastroenterology, with a subspecialty in the care of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Throughout his career, he has been involved in academic activities that included teaching gastroenterologists, GI fellows, residents, nurses, and medical students about the many facets of IBD as well as general gastroenterology. In 1975, he also developed protocols for initiating and maintaining intravenous nutrition in both a community hospital setting and at home.