Robert Wayne Jackson DO, FACOI

Dr Robert Jackson, D.O., F.A.C.O.I., has served as the Associate Dean of Campus Academic Affairs, and as Chairman and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is board certified in the speciality of Internal Medicine as well as the sub-speciality of Rheumatology. Dr Jackson has also completed a four-year tour of duty with the National Health Corps in rural Southern Missouri.

Dr Jackson is currently president of Premier Specialty Network (PSN) and is a full-time PSN Rheumatologist, practising at nine different hospitals in the states of Missouri and Iowa. Founded by Dr Jackson in 1999, PSN has proudly provided quality healthcare to rural communities throughout the United States by establishing satellite clinics staffed by top-level doctors. PSN originally evolved out of the Northeast Missouri Rural Health Network (NMRHN). While directing NMRHN, Dr Jackson became acutely aware of the need to improve access to rural healthcare. With his guidance and leadership, NMRHN helped develop 5 Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) in northeast Missouri (Unionville, Milan, Macon, Memphis and Brookfield). Subsequently, Dr Jackson developed a unique model of outreach speciality medical service for Rheumatology to serve the same hospitals.