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Jackson, Rudolph Ellsworth was born on May 31, 1935 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of Samuel and Jennie Sue (Williams) Jackson.
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Rudolph Ellsworth Jackson, American Pediatrician, educator. Board of directors Alliance To End Childhood Lead Poisoning and American Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Institute, Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia, Inc., 1997. WithUSN, 1962-1967. Member American Medical Association, American Academy Pediatrics, National Medical Association, Association Medical School Pediatric Department Chairmen, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Morehouse College, Atlanta, 1957; Doctor of Medicine Meharry Medical College, 1961.
Career
Assistant in hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, 1969-1972;
assistant professor pediatrics, School Medicine, U. Tennessee, Memphis, 1969-1972;
program coordinator, National Sickle Cell Disease Program, Department of Health, Education and Welfare
chief sickle cell disease branch, National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute. Consultant, member research committees National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute, National CancerInst., National Institutes of Health. Chairman health task force committee for lead elimination, Washington, 1978-1979.
Member sickle cell disease advising committee to Secretary Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1971-1972. Member of advisory county National Institute Arthritis, Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health. Member of advisory committee childhood lead poisoning prevention, Centers for Disease Control, Department Health and Human Superior vena cava syndrome, advising committee on immune practices, mem Human Immunodeficiency Virus panel Agency for Health Care Policy Research Committee, also prevention centers.
Board directors Association Minority Health Professions Schools Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Research Consortium, since 1990, Zambian Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Prevention Program, since 1993.
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Board of directors Alliance To End Childhood Lead Poisoning and American Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Institute, Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia, Inc., 1997. WithUSN, 1962-1967. Member American Medical Association, American Academy Pediatrics, National Medical Association, Association Medical School Pediatric Department Chairmen, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
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Married Janice Diane Ayer, December 26, 1980. Children by previous marriage: Kimberley, Rudolph Ellsworth, Kelley.
