George L. Jackson, Ph.D., M.H.A. is a health care epidemiologist and implementation scientist with a background in health administration.  He serves on the faculty of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas as a Professor and Director of the Advancing Implementation & Improvement Science Program in the Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health.  Currently, he is also the initial Interim Chair during the process of standing up the Department of Health Economics, Systems, and Policy.  Dr. Jackson also has a secondary appointment as a Professor in the UT Southwestern Division of General Internal Medicine.  In addition to his work at UT Southwestern, Dr. Jackson is a Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Systems Research (HSR) Research Health Scientist.  He is the Director of the Implementation and Improvement Science Lab/Core at the Durham VA Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT).  Dr. Jackson also maintains appointments as an Adjunct Professor of Population Health Sciences at Duke and Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.