Sansea Jacobson, MD

Dr. Jacobson was born and raised in Burlington, VT. She completed her undergraduate education at Dartmouth College and Oxford University, and received her medical training at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Jacobson trained in general and child psychiatry at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPIC) where she was a chief resident and the co-founder of the Academic Administrator Clinician Educator (AACE) Track. Dr. Jacobson is currently the Training Director for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship and Triple Board Program at WPIC. She is also the co-chair of the UPMC Graduate Medical Education WELL (Wellness, Environment, Learning, and Living) Committee, where she oversees initiatives to support the well-being of >1700 resident and fellow physicians across the UPMC health care system. Dr. Jacobson’s clinical and advocacy efforts are focused on the prevention of suicide in youth through her work at the Services for Teens at Risk (STAR) Center where she has been a core member of the team since 2007.

Nationally, Dr. Jacobson is the co-chair of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Training and Education Committee and a member of the AACAP Presidential Initiative Taskforce. In these roles, Dr. Jacobson has earned herself a reputation for creating and implementing innovative educational initiatives such as a toolkit to help support vulnerable youth exposed to sensitive topics in the media. Dr. Jacobson is the author or co-author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, as well as a recipient of the WPIC Exemplary Faculty Teaching Service Award, Golden Apple Teaching Award, Samuel Gershon Teaching Award, Arnold P. Gold Foundation Teaching Award, Medical Humanism Award, University of Pittsburgh Excellence in Clinical Psychiatry Award, and a National Institutes of Health Research Training Award.