Jeannette Jakus, MD, MBA, FAAD, FAAP is the Director of Clinical Research and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology at State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center. A lifelong New Yorker, Dr. Jakus graduated from Columbia College at Columbia University with a double major in Premedical Sciences and Economics, and received her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. She completed a pediatrics residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and a dermatology residency and pediatric dermatology fellowship at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. Dr. Jakus also has an MBA from Columbia Business School, and she was the inaugural recipient of the American Academy of Dermatology Translational Biotechnology Fellowship in Sophia Antipolis, France where she spent a year learning about dermatologic drug research and development. She is one of a few physicians in the region who is board-certified in both Dermatology and Pediatric...
