Professor of Clinical Medicine
Cooper University Health Care, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Jeffrey R. Jaeger, MD, FASAM, is a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Addiction Medicine at Cooper University Healthcare and the Cooper Medical School at Rowan Univeristy. At Cooper, he sees patients in the Cooper Center for Healing outpatient practices as well as their walk-in site. With colleagues and trainees, he also provides consultative addiction care in several local and regional long-term care facilities. He is an active participant in the education of fellows, residents, and medical students.
Dr. Jaeger completed residency in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1995, after which he worked in the Indian Health Service on the Navajo reservation. Following that, for 27 years, he was Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. There, he served as a primary care physician and educator and served in many roles including Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine residency program. From 2020-23 was a lead physician for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s “LTC RISE” program, helping to slow the spread of COVID in long-term care communities.
Dr. Jaeger has been involved in advocacy at the municipal, state and federal level on a wide variety of issues including domestic violence, graduate medical education financing, and addiction care. His current policy advocacy is focused on patient access to addiction services, and payment reform to improve the care of patients with opioid use disorder. He is a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and the American College of Physicians. He is the father of three young adults, and lives in Philadelphia with his wife and their several pets.
