Dr. Gretchen Purcell Jackson M.D., PH.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
3601 The Vanderbilt Clinic Nashville TN, 37232About
Dr. Gretchen Jackson practices Pediatric Surgery in Nashville, TN. Dr. Jackson treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Jacksondiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
Education and Training
Stanford University School of Medicine 1993
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Pediatric Surgery
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Imperforate anus with a rectovestibular fistula and pseudotail: a case report.
- Palliative care and pediatric surgery.
- MyHealthAtVanderbilt: policies and procedures governing patient portal functionality.
- A decision model of therapy for potentially resectable pancreatic cancer.
- Congenital lung anomalies: can we postpone resection?
- Juvenile fibroadenoma and granular cell tumor of the breast in an adolescent.
- Recruiting women to vascular surgery and other surgical specialties.
- Rapid growth in surgeons' use of secure messaging in a patient portal.
- Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy (FUSE) certification: validation and predictors of success.
- Application of a Consumer Health Information Needs Taxonomy to Questions in Maternal-Fetal Care.
- Automated Classification of Consumer Health Information Needs in Patient Portal Messages.
- Health Literacy, Education Levels, and Patient Portal Usage During Hospitalizations.
- Review of information technology for surgical patient care.
- Adoption of Secure Messaging in a Patient Portal across Pediatric Specialties.
- Use of a Patient Portal During Hospital Admissions to Surgical Services.
Treatments
- Concussion
- Birth Defects
- Pain
- Hernia
- Cellulitis
- Umbilical Hernia
- Inguinal Hernia
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