W. Daniel Jackson, MD

Languages Spoken: English, Spanish

Dr. W. Daniel Jackson received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, completed his Pediatric residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and his Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Fellowship at Tufts-New England Medical Center and received additional training in the Clinical Nutrition Research Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the Department of Pediatrics faculty of the School of Medicine in 1989.

He is currently a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Primary Children´s Medical Center. He serves as the Medical Director of Nutrition Support Services at Primary Children’s Medical Center and directs the Follow-Up Nutrition Clinic. Other clinical commitments include the Inflammatory Bowel Disease clinic, development of an Aerodigestive clinic in collaboration with Otolaryngology and Pulmonary specialists and an Intestinal Adaptation Clinic collaborating with Pediatric Surgery and Nutrition.

Dr. Daniel Jackson’s research has been in the area of clinical gastroenterology and nutrition support. He is currently the site Principal Investigator for an international multi-center study of chemoprevention of the progression of Familial Adenomatous Polyposis in children. He is co-investigator for studies of therapeutic interventions for Eosinophilic Allergic Esophagitis, including monoclonal antibodies and topical steroids. He is a co-investigator in a study of parenteral lipids and infantile cholestasis. He participates in ongoing quality improvement studies in the area of pediatric nutrition support, particularly parenteral nutrition. He is a co-investigator developing an investigation of nutritional access interventions in neurologically impaired children with GERD.

Previous research experience has focused on bone mineral density in inflammatory bowel disease, metabolic aspects of obesity, and enzyme replacement therapy in cystic fibrosis.