Jackson

Anderson

MD

Jackson Anderson, MD, is a Clinic Instructor and Emergency Medical Services Fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Hospital. He completed his residency training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where he completed a specialized academic track. 

During residency, he served as the Chair of the EMRA Wilderness Medicine Committee and the event medicine resident liaison to the American Airlines Center. He also developed the UTSW Wilderness Medicine Conference Curriculum, the UTSW Helicopter EMS Ride Along Program, the UTSW Medical Student Wilderness Medicine Elective, and the Buprenorphine Initiation in the Emergency Department initiative. 

During residency he received the Harris Methodist Trauma Rotator Award for excellence in procedural skills and resuscitation. 

Dr. Anderson’s professional interests include Search and Rescue, development of global EMS systems, helicopter EMS, and EMS education. He earned his medical degree from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. 

He earned his bachelor’s degree in Spanish as well as his bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor’s Society. 

Outside of medicine, he enjoys skiing, hiking, paddle boarding, and spending time with his partner and cat, Boba.