Deborah Jacobs MD

Deborah Jacobs earned an undergraduate degree at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, and then an M.Sc. in Physiological Sciences from Oxford University in England, on a Rhodes Scholarship. She completed the M.D. program at Harvard Medical School, and residency in Ophthalmology and fellowship in Cornea and External Disease at Massachusetts Eye & Ear, Harvard Medical School. She was Director of Cornea Service at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston from 1992-2006, and then served as Medical Director at BostonSight, 501(c)3, from 2006-2018. Her work at BostonSight included the establishment of over a dozen network sites for PROSE treatment across the United States, and internationally. Dr. Jacobs now serves as Faculty, Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service, Massachusetts Eye & Ear, and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. She serves as Editor-in-Chief at Eye & Contact Lens. Her interests include ocular surface disease, corneal ectasia, evidence-based medicine, and contact lenses in health and disease.