Prof John Jackson PhD FRCPath
John started his career as a scientist specialising in Clinical Immunology and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. He is unique in Ireland with these qualifications which span the interphase between clinical medicine and science. His particular expertise is the role of the immune system in health and disease. He practised for over thirty years at the Department of Clinical Immunology, St James Hospital, and has lectured extensively at under-graduate and post-graduate level to medical and science student at Trinity College Dublin, The Dublin Institute of Technology and The Royal College of Physicians. Together with Prof Con Feighery he designed and delivered all of the immunology teaching to medical students at undergraduate and
John started his career as a scientist specialising in Clinical Immunology and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. He is unique in Ireland with these qualifications which span the interphase between clinical medicine and science. His particular expertise is the role of the immune system in health and disease. He practised for over thirty years at the Department of Clinical Immunology, St James Hospital, and has lectured extensively at under-graduate and post-graduate level to medical and science student at Trinity College Dublin, The Dublin Institute of Technology and The Royal College of Physicians. Together with Prof Con Feighery he designed and delivered all of the immunology teaching to medical students at undergraduate and
POSTGRADUATE LEVEL AT THE MEDICAL SCHOOL TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. HE IS FORMER FOUNDER/DIRECTOR OF A TRINITY COLLEGE/DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MSC PROGRAMME IN MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY AND HAS BEEN A GUEST SPEAKER AT MANY UNIVERSITIES ABROAD AND AT INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL MEETINGS. HE WAS APPOINTED SENIOR LECTURER IN CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY TRINITY COLLEGE 1N 2006 AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN 2011. HE HAS AN INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION IN THE FIELD OF IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH AND HAS PUBLISHED EXTENSIVELY IN LEADING MEDICAL AND SCIENCE JOURNALS ON THE ROLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. HE HAS APPROXIMATELY THREE HUNDRED PUBLICATIONS INCLUDING OVER FORTY FULL PAPERS IN LEADING MEDICAL AND SCIENCE JOURNALS INCLUDING NATURE, THE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION AND THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE. HE HAS SUPERVISED MANY PHD AND MSC STUDENTS. A PARTICULAR TOPIC OF HIS RESEARCH IS IN THE AREA OF INFLAMMATION AND AUTOIMMUNITY AND DURING HIS CAREER DESCRIBED A NEW AUTOIMMUNE DISORDER. IN MORE RECENT YEARS HE DEVELOPED AN INTEREST IN EXERCISE AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. JOHN BECAME A QUALIFIED FITNESS INSTRUCTOR IN 2011, CURRENTLY JOHN IS DIRECTING A TREATMENT PROGRAMME FOR PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME AND BELIEVES THE HEALTH AND FITNESS INDUSTRY WOULD BENEFIT FROM A MORE RIGOROUS SCIENTIFIC APPROACH, ESPECIALLY REGARDING THE USE OF FAD NUTRITIONAL AND EXERCISE PROGRAMMES.
JOHN WILL BE HOSTING A FREE TALK ON EXERCISE AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, ON WEDNESDAY 18TH OF NOVEMBER.
TIME TO BE CONFIRMED BUT WE CAN SAY IT WOULD BE AROUND 7PM.
FOR THOSE INTERESTED PLEASE EMAIL THE GYM AT [email protected] TO CONFIRM YOUR PLACE
JOHN WILL BE HOSTING A FREE TALK ON EXERCISE AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, ON WEDNESDAY 18TH OF NOVEMBER.
TIME TO BE CONFIRMED BUT WE CAN SAY IT WOULD BE AROUND 7PM.
FOR THOSE INTERESTED PLEASE EMAIL THE GYM AT [email protected] TO CONFIRM YOUR PLACE
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