Linda Jacobs

Dr. Jacobs is the founding Director of the Cancer Survivorship Program at Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center, the first adult cancer survivorship program in the US, established in 2001. She is a clinician and researcher, providing follow-up care to numerous populations of cancer survivors including testicular and survivors of childhood and young adult cancers. The Penn Cancer Survivorship Program is a national and internationally renowned clinical, research, and education focused multidisciplinary initiative, and Dr. Jacobs has led the effort to develop models of care, research initiatives, and to identify the education needed to prepare providers to care for cancer survivors. Her multidisciplinary research agenda primarily examines the long-term and late effects of cancer treatment experienced by survivors resulting from their diagnosis with particular emphasis on cardiovascular, endocrine, quality of life, and health behavior modification.