Your new (old) blogger

I’m Dr. Dan Jackson, your new resident blogger. Let me tell you about myself.

I was born 92 years ago in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, a small steel mill town on the Ohio River. I went to school at Geneva College, then to St. Louis University Medical School where I got my degree in 1941.

After that it was an internship at the Allegheny Hospital in Pittsburgh, three and a half years in the Army, mostly in the South Pacific, and residencies at Cleveland City Hospital and the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in New Orleans.

Our family moved to Houston on June 30, 1949 where the Texas Medical Center was just beginning to take shape. I opened my practice of internal medicine in a small office at the corner of Rosalie and San Jacinto across from the old Methodist Hospital. I moved to the Medical Center in 1954.

In 1976 I was delighted to be joined by my son Dr. Richard Jackson; we named our new organization, Associates in Medicine. Shortly after that we moved to the Scurlock Towers where the group has grown to its present size. It has a fine reputation for outstanding medical care.


I retired in 1995. I spend my time playing bridge, writing, reading, and watching birds and squirrels in my back yard.