Dr. Jackson Curriculum Vitae

Staff neurosurgeon at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center and Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center since July 2000. In addition to general neurosurgery, Dr. Jackson has a special interest in minimally invasive brain and spine surgery, complex spine surgery, and stereotactic surgery.

EDUCATION

Neurosurgery Residency, Baylor College of Medicine, July 1995-2000
The Methodist Hospital
Ben Taub General Hospital
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Texas Childrens' Hospital
Houston VAMC
General Surgery Internship, Baylor College of Medicine, June 1994-1995
M.D., with Honors, Baylor College of Medicine, 1990-1994
B.A., magna cum laude, Chemistry and Biology, University of San Diego 1986-1990
Mater Dei High School, Santa Ana, California 1982-1986

Faculty Appointments

2000 - Present - Section Chief, Division of Neurosurgery, Saddleback Memorial
Medical Center
2003 - Present - Assistant Clinical Profeesor of Neurosurgery, University of
California Irvine
2006 - Present - Chairman, Division of Neurosurgery, Mission Hospital Regional
Medical Center

LICENSING AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Board Certified American Association of Neurological Surgery 2003
Passed written examination of the American Board of Neurological Surgery March 1997 - 94th percentile
Licensed M.D. by Medical Board of California March 2000 A71112
United States Medical Licensing Exam Part 1, 2, and 3 - 93-98th percentile
TSBME Medical Jurisprudence 1994
Advanced Trauma Life Support requirements June 1994
American Association of Neurological Surgeons member
Congress of Neurological Surgeons member
North American Spine Society member

HONORS

2007 Orange County Medical Association and Orange Coast Magazine Physician
of Excellence Award

Baylor College of Medicine

Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
Award for Excellence in Neurosurgery 1994
Award for Excellence in Surgery 1994
Albert and Elizabeth Butler Scholarship 1994
Baylor College of Medicine Clinical Neurology Achievement Award 1993
Killson Educational Foundation scholarship 1992-93
Graduated from Basic Sciences with Honors 1992

University of San Diego

American Institute of Chemist's Award 1990
Silver medal and several top ten finishes in West Coast Collegiate
Cycling Conference races 1988-90
Kappa Gamma Pi National Catholic Honor Society for College Graduates 1990
USD Volunteer Service Award 1989
Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities 1989
Received research grant (1989) for "The Isolation, Characterization and
Sequencing of the L-asparaginase Genes in Aspergillus nidulans"
Nominated for USA Today's Academic All-American Team 1989
CRC Press Outstanding Chemistry Student Award 1987

NEUROSURGICAL CONFERENCES AND COURSES

Course Instructor - X-Stop in the Treatment of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis, San Diego, California June 13, 2007
Course Instructor - Occipital-Cervical-Thoracic Spinal Instrumentation. Disorders of the Spine, British Columbia, Canada, January 2006.
Presentation - Repair of Thoracic and Lumbar Spinal Fractures, Disorders of the Spine, British Columbia, Canada, January 2006.
Presentation - Thoracic Disc Herniations, Disorders of the Spine, British Columbia, Canada, January 2006.
Course Instructor - Percutaneous Vertebroplasty of the Spine, Spinal Skeletal
Solutions: A global perspective, Jan 2004
Course Instructor - Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion, Spinal Skeletal
Solutions: A global perspective, Jan 2004
Course Instructor - Percutaneous Vertebroplasty of the Spine, American
Osteomedics, Irvine California, November 16-18, 2001
Course Instructor - Percutaneous Vertebroplasty of the Spine, American Osteomedics,
Pomona California, March 9-10, 2002
Course Instructor - Percutaneous Vertebroplasty for Spine Fractures, Interpore Cross,
Las Vegas, June 14-15, 2002
AANS 2002 - Functional Neurosurgery, Stereotactic Radiosurgery
CNS 2001 - Lumbar Spondylolisthesis
International Symposium on Berry Aneurysms February 1996
Midas Rex Neurosurgical Instrumentation Hands-On Workshop January 1996
George Ehni Visiting Professor with Gazi Yasargil September 1996
Neuroendoscopy course with Axel Perneczky January 1997
Temporal Bone Approaches course with J. Diaz Day October 1998
North American Spine Society October 1998
AANS April 1999
CNS October 1999

RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Jackson RJ, Massoudi F: Safety and efficacy of percutaneous lateral extrapedicular
vertebroplasty in the treatment of spinal compression fractures, AANS abstract, Spring 2003.
Palmer S, Bader MK, Palmer J, Gross J, Massoudi F, Jackson RJ, et al: Implementation of the Traumatic Brain Injury Guidelines: Lessons Learned in a 3-year Experience. Presented CNS Philadelphia 2002
Jackson RJ: Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential and Parkinsonian Tremor, presented at the American Parkinson Disease Association symposium at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center, June 9, 2001.
Jackson RJ : Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders, SMMC Grand Rounds, October 29, 2003
Jackson RJ: Invited Faculty, Update on Spinal Surgery, Mission Hospital Neuroscience Conference October 9, 2003
Jackson RJ: Invited faculty, course instructor for American Osteomedics/Interpore Cross Hands on Percutaneous Vertebroplasty course Novemeber 2001, Irvine, California
Jackson RJ, Baskin DS: Spinal Cord Injury, in Evans RW, Baskin DS, Yatsu FM (eds): Prognosis of Neurological Disorders, Vol 2. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 381-393, 2001
Jackson RJ, Gokaslan, ZL: Occipital-cervical-thoracic fixation for spinal instability in
neoplastic processes. Journal of Neurosurgery (Spine 1) 91:81-89, July 1999, cover article, poster presentation AANS 1999
Jackson RJ, Gokaslan ZL: Treatment of disc and ligamentous diseases of the cervical spine, in Youman's Neurological Surgery , 5th edition, 2003.
Jackson RJ, Gokaslan ZL: Metastatic renal carcinoma of the spine: surgical treatment and outcome. in press Journal of Neurosurgery Spine 94:18-24, 2001 (presentation Spine Section and AANS 2000)
Jackson RJ, Gokaslan, ZL: Spinal-pelvic fixation in patients with lumbosacral neoplasms
Journal of Neurosurgery Spine 92:61-70, 2000, presentation CNS Boston
Jackson RJ, Shi WM, Abi-Said D, Gokaslan ZL, Fuller GN, Sawaya R: Is stereotactic brain biopsy necessary in the initial management of gliomas, Neuro-Oncology 193-200, July 2001 (1st place poster presentation CNS Boston 1999)
Jackson RJ, Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage and Aneurysmal Subarachnoid
Hemorrhage, presentation Neuroscience for Nurses, Mission Hospital January 2001.
Hsu G, Jackson RJ, Gokaslan ZL: Transpedicular screw fixation for cancer related spinal
instability (work in progress)
Kalhorn CG, Jackson RJ, Grossman RG, Woo S: Peacock conformal stereotactic radiotherapy in intracranial meningioma (work in progress)
Jackson RJ, Goodman JC, Huston, DP, Harper, RL: Parafalcine and bilateral convexity neurosarcoidosis mimicking meningioma; case report and review of the literature. Neurosurgery 42: 635-638, 1998
Jackson RJ: Recognition and treatment of cervical spine injury presented at The Methodist
Hospital Grand Rounds June 1998
Jackson RJ: Effectiveness of right heart catheterization: time for a randomized trial. [Letter] JAMA 1997; 277(2): 108-9; discussion 113-4
Jackson RJ: Neurosurgical Management of Intracerebral Hemorrhages presented at The Methodist Hospital Neurosurgical Grand Rounds April 1996
Jackson RJ: Cerebral Aneurysm Rebleeding presented at The Methodist Hospital Neurosurgical Grand Rounds May 1996
Jackson RJ: Neurosarcoidosis presented at The Methodist Hospital Neurosurgical Grand
Rounds November 1996
Jackson RJ: Neurosurgical Management of the HIV Infected Patient presented at the BCM Neurosurgical Resident Seminar November 1996
The Secondary Effects of Hypotension on a Rat Head Injury Model - BCM Department of Neurosurgery 7/96-10/96
The Effect of Anti-thrombin III on DIC in the Rat Head Injury Model - BCM Department of Neurosurgery, 5/93 - 12/93
Femur Fractures and Fat Embolism Syndrome - BCM Dept. of Orthopedics, 7/91 - 9-91
Jackson, RJ, "Cloning the L-asparaginase Genes from Aspergillus nidulans ," Honors Senior Colloquium Collected Papers , Spring 1990. Presented by R. Jackson at the American Chemical Society Undergraduate Research Conference, CSULA, May 1990
Simovich M, Sassaman C, Jackson RJ, Galasso D: abstract "Genetic Variability in Tadpole Shrimp," American Zoologist , vol. 24, 1988. Presented by R. Jackson and D. Galasso at the Annual Symposium on the Scientific Value of the Desert, Anza-Borrego National Park, March 1989