Jane Koehler, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine

Division of Infectious Diseases

521 Parnassus, Room C-443

University of California-San Francisco

San Francisco, CA  94143-0654

Phone: 415/476-3536

Fax: 415/476-9364

email address:  jkoehler@medicine.ucsf.edu

Jane E. Koehler, MA, MD, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Koehler received her Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, in 1975 and her Master of Arts degree in microbiology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978. She attended medical school at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, and trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases at UCSF. The focus of Dr. Koehler’s research is the emerging human pathogen Bartonella, a fastidious gram-negative, arthropod-borne bacterium. The research in Dr. Koehler’s laboratory focused initially on the molecular epidemiology and microbiology of Bartonella. More recently, the laboratory’s research is focused on molecular pathogenesis and the regulation of virulence genes in Bartonella.. 

Dr. Koehler has received national awards for her basic and translational research, including a Pew Scholar Award in the Biomedical Sciences and a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research. 

She is the author or coauthor of numerous journal articles, abstracts and book chapters, and serves as a reviewer for such publications as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the Journal of Bacteriology, the Journal of Experimental Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and the Journal of Clinical Microbiology,.