Professor Graham Jackson is a Consultant Haematologist specialising in haematological malignancies particularly myeloma, lymphoma and acute leukaemias, stem cell transplantation and intra-thecal chemotherapy.
Professor Jackson works in Haematology/Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is a Professor of Clinical Haematology at Newcastle University. He graduated from Cambridge in 1980 and went on to study medicine at the Westminster School of Medicine. He gained his MRCP in 1986 and then moved to Newcastle University to undertake his MD, which he completed in 1992.
Professor Jackson obtained his MRCPath in 1993, followed by his FRCP in 1999 and his FRCPath in 2000. He also worked at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Centre in Seattle.
Research
His research interests focus on the role of drug resistance in myeloma, development of long-term bone marrow transplant follow-up clinics, and the cytokine profile of acute and chronic GVHD. Clinically he has been involved in writing a number of guidelines including the BCSH anti-fungal guidelines. Professor Jackson has written a number of book chapters and has published more than 125 peer reviewed papers.
He was the President of the British Society of Haematology in 2014 and was the treasurer of the society until April 2013. He is also the President of the British Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (BSBMT) and serves on the Clinical Trials Awards and Advisory Committee (CTAAC) as well as the Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research grants committee. He is also actively involved in the national myeloma trials committee.
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