Here are four things to know about Dr. Jackson.
1. As vice president and dean, Dr. Jackson will lead University of Iowa Health Care, which comprises the medical school, Iowa City-based UI Hospitals & Clinics and UI Physicians.
2. Dr. Jackson previously served as the vice president for health sciences and dean of the Minneapolis-based University of Minnesota School of Medicine.
3. Board-certified in pathology and blood-banking, Dr. Jackson was also named principal investigator of the multimillion-dollar Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network funded by the National Institutes of Health.
4. Dr. Jackson completed his medical degree at Hanover, N.H.-based Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, and completed his residency at the University of Minnesota.
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