Recipient & Lecturer 2025 APsA Candidates’ Council Master Teacher Award (Award renamed in Dr. Jacobson’s honor going forward)
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- American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA)
Board Member
- American Board of Psychoanalysis (ABPsa)

Immediate Past Head, Department of Psychoanalytic Education (DPE)
- American Psychoanalytic Association


Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Emory University School of Medicine

Training and Supervising Analyst, Past Associate Director, and Past Progression Committee Chair
- Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute

Distinguished Fellow
- American Psychiatric Association

Recipient 2009 International Children's Champion's Award
- Africa’s Children’s Fund
- Past recipients include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mr. Arthur Blank, Mrs. Marian Wright-Edelman, Dr. David Satcher, Mr. Mark O’Connell, Mr. Tom Warth and Mr. Danny Glover

Medical School
- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S)
- Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (AOA)
- William Raynor Watson Psychiatry Graduation Prize

Residency
- New York Hospital-Cornell, Payne Whitney Clinic
- Faculty Council Teaching Award

Analytic Training
- Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research

Certificate in Adult Psychoanalysis
- American Board of Psychoanalysis

Past Member
- Skyland Trail Professional Advisory Board

Past Examiner in Psychiatry
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Past Member, Scientific Program Committee
- American Psychiatric Association

Past President, Secretary, and Program Chair
- Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society
Past Co-Chair, DPE Institute Advisory and Consultation Section (IACS)
- American Psychoanalytic Association


Past Co-Chair, Scientific Paper Prize Committee
- American Psychoanalytic Association

Modern psychiatry integrated with contemporary psychoanalysis offers an enormously powerful body of knowledge for the relief of human suffering.