Jacob Wessler MD

Education

Bachelor of Science, Chemsitry - Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI - 2000
MD - VCU School of Medicine, Richmond, VA - 2004
Pediatric Internship - Keesler AFB, Biloxi, MS - 2005
Pediatric Residency - Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Portsmouth, VA - 2007
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC - 2010

Career Highlights: Positions, Projects, Deployements, Awards and Additional Publications

Chief, Solution Intelligence Section; User Integration Branch; Solution Delivery Division; DHA-J6 - 2017 - 2018

Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist - 2010 - Present

Chief Medical Informatics Officer; Naval Medical Center Portsmouth - 2012 - 2017; 2019-present

MHS GENESIS Site Point of Contact - 01 Jul 2021 - 03 Feb 2023

Representative Bibliography

1st National Capital Region Military Competition, Presenter, “Nocardia Sepsis Associated with Intravenous Deferoxamine Infusion,” March 2009

2nd National Capital Region Military Competition, Poster Presentation, “Lagtime to Oncologic Diagnoses: A Comparison Between Military and Non-Military Healthcare Systems,” May 2010

XXIV International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Poster Presentation, “Adherence to Clotting Factors Among Persons With Type A or B Haemophilia,” June 2013

Wessler, J, et al. “Recurrent Nocardia Sepsis in a Patient With Sickle Cell Anemia Receiving Continuous Deferoxamine.” J Ped Infect Dis. 2013doi:10.1093/jpids/pit038

Armstrong, E, Malone, D, Krishnan, S, Wessler, J. “Adherence to clotting factors among persons with hemophilia A or B.” Hematology. Jul 2014. Online. doi: 10.1179/1607845414Y.0000000176

Armstrong, E, Malone, D, Krishnan, S, Wessler, J. “Costs and utilization of hemophilia A and B patients with and without inhibitors.” Hematology. Nov 2014, Vol. 17, No. 11, Pages 798-802 (doi:10.3111/13696998.2014.953679)

Wessler, J. “Leukemia in Children: Getting Back to School – Part 1.” NASN School Nurse. March 2015. Vol. 30. No. 2. pp.116-118. doi: 10.1177/1942602X15570256

Mannino, E. et al., “Congenital methemoglobinemia type II in a 5-year-old boy.” Clinical Case Reports 2018; 6(1): 170–178

Cole, S., Wessler, J., “Sore Throat and Tonsillar Asymmetry in a 10-year-old Boy.” Pediatrics in Review; October 2020, 41 (Supplement 1) S43-S45

Benjamin Fischl, MBA, MHA, USAF, MSC, Andrew T Patterson, MD, USAF, MC, Joseph Baxter, DO, USAF, MC, James Watson, MD, USAF, MC, Jesse Hemsworth, PA-C, USAF, MC, David Valentine, PharmD, USAF, MC, Jacob Wessler, MD, USAF, MC, Danny Wong, DDS, USAF, DC, Planning Considerations and Lessons Learned From a COVID-19 Mass Community Vaccination Center, Military Medicine, 2021; 28 July 2021