Dr. Richard J. Jackson was born in Atlanta, Georgia and was raised in West Virginia.  He attended medical school and completed his Surgery Residency at West Virginia University in Morgantown.  Following his residency, he spent 4 years at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh where he completed a Pediatric Surgery Research Fellowship, a Pediatric Trauma/Critical Care Fellowship, and a Pediatric Surgery Fellowship.  Dr. Jackson is Board Certified in General Surgery, Surgery-Critical Care, and Pediatric Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.  He joined the faculty at the Department of Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 1992 and practices at Arkansas Children’s Hospital.  He is a member of the American Medical Association, American Pediatric Surgical Association, American College of Surgeons, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, Society for Microbial Ecology and Disease, Association for Academic Surgery, and Children’s Oncology Group – Surgical Section.  He also serves on the Arkansas Emergency Physicians’ Foundation, the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, and is the Chair of the Arkansas Committee on Trauma .

Dr. Jackson has received numerous outstanding faculty teaching awards and has been named multiple times as one of America’s Top Surgeons.  He was an invited lecturer at the Minimally Invasive Robotic Association’s 1st Worldwide Meeting in Innsbruck, Austria. 

Dr. Jackson has a particular interest in complex vascular anomalies of the chest and abdomen.  He recently returned from a trip to China where he worked with a team of ENT Surgeons from UAMS to perform surgery on a child with a very large, complex vascular malformation.