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John Jackson
A third generation Mississippian, John Fenwick Jackson is a retired University teaching physician and is author or co-author of over 100 scientific medical journal articles, book chapters and a med...view moreA third generation Mississippian, John Fenwick Jackson is a retired University teaching physician and is author or co-author of over 100 scientific medical journal articles, book chapters and a medical genetics book. He grew up hunting and fishing the Yockanookany River, swam in creeks and played cornet in the school band. He attended Ole Miss and Tulane School of Medicine, had a residency in Internal Medicine and a postdoctoral cancer research fellowship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He joined the faculty of Tulane, did a postdoctoral fellowship year in medical genetics at Uppsala University in Sweden. Returning to the UMMC faculty, he established the first cytogenetics laboratory in Mississippi. John is a founding fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics, and retired as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine. He and his wife Mary have two daughters, Karen and Jean, a son Marshall, four grandchildren and one great grandson. He and Mary live in Jackson, MS, where he tends to a tree farm a couple of miles from the Pearl River. He paints, builds gourd banjos and banjolas in his backyard workshop, and occasionally writes. Pearl River is his first novel.view less