Reporter Volume 25, No.26 April 28, 1994

Dr. Theodore T. Jacobs, surgeon, former hospital president
Dr. Theodore T. Jacobs, former president of The Buffalo General
Hospital and a former clinical assistant professor of surgery at UB,
died April 9, 1994 in a Clearwater, Fla. hospital after a long
illness.
	Jacob , 82, had lived in Clearwater since his retirement in
1975. He was associated with Buffalo General for more than 35 years as
medical student, intern, resident, staff surgeon, director of the
Outpatient Department and coordinator of house staff education.
	He was named director of the hospital in 1971, after serving
as associate director for nine years. In 1972, he became president,
overseeing planning for expansion and modernization which led to the
construction of the hospital's 13-story tower on High Street.
	Jacobs received his medical degree from the University of
Buffalo in 1938 and served during World War II in the 23rd Army
General Hospital in Africa, Italy and France. He developed a private
practice as a general thoracic surgeon after the war, performing some
of the early heart operations on "blue babies" in Western New York in
1948 and 1949. He left his practice in 1959 when he was named director
of the Buffalo General Hospital Outpatient Department.
	Jacobs who was a trustee of the former Comprehensive Health
Planning Council of Western New York, was a diplomate of the American
Board of Surgery and of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He was
a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a former president of
the WNY Hospital Association and a member of the Association of
American Medical Colleges and the American College of Hospital
Administrators.
	He received the American Red Cross Distinguished Service
Citation in 1975, in honor of his outstanding support of the Red Cross
and its programs. When tropical storm Agnes struck the Southern Tier
in 1972, he made emergency supplies available to the Red Cross and
sent them to flooded areas at no cost.
	Survivors include his wife, Mae; two daughters, Alice Carles
of Mountain Lakes, N.J., and Marie Kent Belcher of West Hartford,
Conn.; a son, Thomas of Bliss; a stepson, Geoffrey Dutton; a sister,
Evelyn Lutfy of Largo, Fla.; a brother, Joseph of Pasadena, Calif.;
and four grandchildren.