Vicki A. Jackson, MD, MPH, FAAHPM

Vicki Jackson, MD, MPH, FAAHPM, serves as Physician-in-Chief and Chief of the Department of Medicine at Boston Medical Center. She also holds the position of Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

A nationally recognized leader in palliative care, Dr. Jackson is a coinvestigator and mentor on numerous studies funded through the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute investigating the effect of early, integrated palliative care for patients with advanced cancer. In 2019, she received Harvard Medical School’s prestigious A. Clifford Barger mentoring award. She is the coauthor of several books, including Living with Cancer: A Step-by-Step Guide to Coping Medically and Emotionally with a Serious Diagnosis and What’s in the Syringe? Principles of Early Integrated Palliative Care. Nationally, Dr. Jackson serves as the Immediate Past President for the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Dr. Jackson received her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and completed her residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received training in research methods through the Harvard Medical School general medicine fellowship and completed a master’s degree in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She also completed fellowship training in palliative care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston.