Professor Alan Jackson

Alan Jackson is Emeritus Professor of Radiology at the University of Manchester.

Professor Alan Jackson provides expert witness reports in the field of neuroradiology.

He qualified from the University of Manchester with an honours degree in 1984 having previously completed a PhD in neuroanatomy in 1981. He was admitted to the Royal College of Physicians in 1987 and into the Royal College of Radiologists in 1990. He was admitted as Fellow to both the Royal College of Physicians in 2003 and the British Institute of Radiology in 2007. He holds the European Diploma of Neuroradiology.

In 1995 Professor Jackson was appointed as a Consultant Neuroradiologist at Manchester Royal infirmary and Senior Lecturer in Neuroradiology at the University of Manchester. Later the same year he was appointed as Professor of Neuroradiology at the University of Manchester. He retired from clinical practice in February 2019 but remains Emeritus Professor of Radiology at the University of Manchester.

Professor Jackson's main areas of clinical interest include neuro-oncology, neurovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as the development and testing of advanced imaging techniques including CT, MRI and PET imaging. He has also published in the areas of arachnoiditis, traumatic brain injury and brain diseases associated with ageing, he has a particular interest in the importance of incidental findings discovered during clinical or research scanning investigations. From 1995 until 2019 he was responsible for clinical management of the Universities CT, MR and PET imaging systems in addition to leading a research group studying advanced imaging techniques. He has been director of the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre at the University of Manchester from 2007-2019 and Joint Director of the CRUK and EPSRC cancer imaging research centre in Cambridge and Manchester.

He has been a medical legal expert in neuroradiology for the past five years during which he has acted in over 300 cases on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. His medicolegal work has included medical malpractice, fitness to practice reviews as well as commercial and criminal cases.

Website:  https://www.beardsandjackson.com/

Professor Jackson has several years' experience in medicolegal work preparing reports for Solicitors acting both for the Plaintiff and Defendant.

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