Jamie Jackson, PhD

Jamie Jackson, PhD, is a principal investigator in the Center for Biobehavioral Health in the Abigail Wexner Medical Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, an assistant professor of Pediatrics and Psychology in the College of Medicine and Department of Psychology at The Ohio State University, and a licensed clinical health psychologist.

Dr. Jackson attended graduate school in clinical health psychology at The Ohio State University and completed her clinical internship at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She completed a clinical fellowship in cardiac behavioral medicine at the Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Dr. Jackson then completed a two-year research fellowship as a T32 recipient (T32-HL-098039) in congenital heart disease through The Heart Center at Nationwide Children’s Hospital before joining the Nationwide Children’s Hospital research faculty.

Dr. Jackson’s work focuses on helping adolescents and young adults with cardiovascular risk factors, such as having congenital heart disease, manage their health by engaging in positive health behaviors such as physical activity and attending cardiology follow-up appointments. She is also interested in the lived experience of individuals with congenital heart disease and is interested in promoting emotional wellbeing and quality of life through identifying barriers to engaging in healthy behaviors and accessing care, including social drivers of health.