Lesley Jackson, MD

Lesley Jackson, MD is an Instructor in the Department of Medicine – Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Jackson completed medical school at Indiana University School of Medicine graduating in 2015, and internal medicine residency at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, TN. Dr. Jackson went on to a fellowship in Global Health sponsored by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School under the aegis of The Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership and spent time in Boston and Botswana. After that Dr. Jackson moved to Birmingham, AL, and enrolled as a rheumatology fellow in the Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at UAB in July 2019. Experiences in basic and clinical research inspired Dr. Jackson to pursue formal research training during my fellowship with an emphasis on health disparities. She  was fortunate to be selected for the T32 Training Program in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Disease Research which commenced July 1, 2020. Long term, she hopes to become an independent investigator with a focus on health disparities and minority health in patients with rheumatic disease.