Dr. Jackson is an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Previously he was Professor of Medicine and of Medical Microbiology and Head of the Section of Neurology at the University of Manitoba. Before that he was at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He continues working as a neurologist at two hospitals in Manitoba.He graduated from Queen’s University with BA (magna cum laude) and MD degrees. He completed an internship in internal medicine at University of Southern California, residencies in internal medicine at Queen’s University and in neurology at Western University (formerly University of Western Ontario), and a fellowship in neurovirology at Johns Hopkins University with the late Drs. Richard Johnson and Diane Griffin. He was the first President of Rabies in the Americas, Inc. and he served on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Neurovirology for many years. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the American Neurological Association, and the American Academy of Neurology. He was active for 30 years in basic and clinical research. Dr. Jackson has many peer-reviewed research publications on aspects of the pathogenesis of rabies and on human rabies. He was the principal investigator on research grants to study experimental aspects of rabies. He has numerous book chaptersand has edited/coedited six books on rabies and one on viral infections of the nervous system.
Title Of Talk : Rabies: challenges in taming the beast