1. Current position: Vyterra Coaching Services, LLC 2016 - present
Founder/Owner
Certified Life and Physician Development Coach
N1813 Maple Heights Beach
Chilton, WI 53014
1-844-VYTERRA (898-3772)
VyterraCS@gmail.com
VyterraCS.com
Past positions:
General and Vascular Surgeon General and Vascular Surgeon Assistant Clinical Professor
Ministry Medical Group Physicians Plus Medical Group General and Vascular Surgery
2251 N Shore Drive 1 South Park Street UW Medical School
Rhinelander, WI 54501 Madison, WI 53715 Madison, WI 53792
(715) 361-4700 (608) 287-2100 (608) 263-7502
1996 - 2011 1991 - 1996 1991 - 1996
Education: University of Wisconsin - River Falls
River Falls, Wisconsin BS (Biochemistry) 1982
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut MD 1986
Post-graduate education:
Resident in General Surgery:
Univ. of CA - San Francisco Affiliated Hospitals 1986 - 1988
Univ. of WI Hospital and Clinics 1988 - 1991
Continuing Education:
Fowler International Academy of Professional Coaching
Certified Professional [Life] Coach (CPC) 2015
Net Institute
Certified Professional Recovery Coach (CPRC) 2015
Physician Coaching Institute
Certified Physician Development Coach (CPDC) 2016
Board qualifications:
Diplomat, National Board of Medical Examiners, #328593 1987
Diplomat, American Board of Surgery, #37273 1992, 2002
Bruce K. Jacobson MD, CPDC
Curriculum Vitae

2. Bruce K. Jacobson MD, CPDC
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Honors and Awards:
Chancellor’s Award, University of Wisconsin - River Falls 1982
First Place, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 1984
Student research competition
Ferris Prize for Scientific Research, Yale Medical School 1986
Ministry Health Care Circle of Excellence Award 2010
Professional activities:
State Medical Society of Wisconsin 1988 - 2011
Dane County Medical Society 1993 - 1996
President 1996
Madison Surgical Society 1991 - 1996
Wisconsin Surgical Society 1991 - 2011
American College of Surgeons, Fellow (FACS) 1994 - 2011
Organizer/Instructor, Preperitoneal Laparoscopic Hernia Surgery 11/96
Physicians Plus Ambulatory Surgery Center
Bibliography
1. Jacobson, Bruce K and Baker, Christopher C: Immunosupression following excision of burn eschar and
syngeneic grafting in major thermal injury. Yale J Biol Med 57:797 - 808, 1984.
2. Jacobson, Bruce K: Studies on the effects of timing of wound excision on immunocompetence following
thermal injury in mice. Yale Medical School MD Thesis, 1986.
3. Jacobson BK, Cuono CB, Kupper TS, Baker CC: Immunological alterations following excisional
wounding and immediate repair with syngeneic or allogeneic skin grafts. J Burn Care and Rehab 9(4):354 -
357, 1988.
4. Jacobson, Bruce K, Kalayoglu, Munci: Treatment of hepatic veno-occlusive disease with a central
splenorenal shunt in an infant. J Pediatr Surg 27(4):531 - 533. 1992.
Abstracts
1. Jacobson, Bruce K, Kupper, Thomas S, Baker, Christopher C: Immunosupression following surgical
excision and syngeneic grafting in major thermal injury. Presented at the 16th annual meeting of the American
Burn Association, San Francisco, California, 1984.
2. Jacobson BK, Stenn KS, Baker CC, Cuono CB: Immunosupression following split thickness skin
grafting in a murine model. Presented at the 30th annual meeting of the Plastic Surgery Research Council,
Portland, Oregon, 1985.
3. Jacobson, Bruce K, Harms, Bruce A, Starling, James R: Ileal reservoir reconstruction for ulcerative colitis
and polyposis. Presented at the meeting of the Wisconsin Surgical Society, Kohler, Wisconsin, 1989.