Jeffrey Jaeger graduated with a BA from the University of Virginia in 1988. He obtained his MD from Tufts University in 1992, and completed internship and residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. After completion of residency, he worked for 2 years for the Indian Health Service on the Navajo Nation in Fort Defiance, AZ. He returned to the University of Pennsylvania in 1997, where he achieved the rank of Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. In 2024, he transitioned to the full-time practice of Addiction Medicine as a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, in Camden, NJ.
Since 2003, when he served as a co-leader of the Robert Wood Johnson “Achieving Competency Today” program, Jeff has been engaged in the education of internal medicine residents. In 2008, he helped to oversee the successful incorporation of 50+ residents from Penn's resident clinic into 4 faculty practices, and helped design the “Firm Rotation,” the residency’s outpatient general medicine immersion rotation. He served as Associate Program Director for the Penn residency program, participating in curriculum design, competency evaluation, coaching, and mentoring. At Penn, he was honored with the Sylvan Eisman Outstanding Primary Care Physician Award and the John Eisenberg Teaching Award.
Jeff is the past-president of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Society of General Internal Medicine, and served on the Health Policy Executive Committee, and as an Associate Editor for the SGIM Forum. His advocacy interests include the care patients with substance use disorders, GME financing, physician payment reform, and protecting Medicaid.
In his spare time, Jeff enjoys biking, playing games with friends and family, and reading. He lives in Mount Airy, Philadelphia with his lovely wife and whichever of his three children are home at any given time.