Rochester and studied medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. As a professor at Stanford University, she engaged in teaching, cancer research, and patient care. She has served as Senior Associate Dean and as Director of the Clinical Cancer Center. Her academic honors include election to Phi Beta Kappa, Kaiser Foundation Award for Innovative and Outstanding Contributions to Medical Education, Rambar Award for Excellence in Clinical Care, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Washington University. She has published ninety scientific articles and three books which reflect her cancer and medical education research. She currently cares for veterans with cancer at the Palo Alto Veterans Medical Center.Jacobs's first biography, Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin’s Disease, was published in 2010. Her new biography is Jonas Salk: A Life.
Recently I asked Jacobs about what she was reading. Her reply:I tend to read and study nonfiction books. Two of my favorites are Candice Millard’s River of Doubt and more recently Daniel James Brown’s The Boys in the Boat. Both are master storytellers who have mastered the craft of narrative nonfiction.Visit Charlotte Jacobs's website.
As for fiction, I am addicted to Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories and anxiously await her next work.
My Book, The Movie: Jonas Salk: A Life.
The Page 99 Test: Jonas Salk: A Life.
--Marshal Zeringue
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