Scientific Education & Advisory Board
Eric M. Jackson, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He graduated from Harvard College and received his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School. He completed his Neurosurgery residency at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital Boston.
Clinically, he sees patients with a broad range of diagnoses with special expertise in Chiari malformation, hydrocephalus, craniosynostosis, brain and spinal cord tumors, and spinal dysraphism. He is director for the recently funded Johns Hopkins Chiari Clinical Research Center. He is the Principal Investigator for Johns Hopkins for many multi-institutional research consortia including the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network, the Park-Reeves Syringomyelia Research Consortium, and the Advancing Treatment for Pediatric Craniopharyngioma consortium. He is a member of the Executive and Scientific Committees of the Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium.
