Jon Jackson, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been elected to a three-year term on the Educational Affairs Committee of the American Association of Anatomists. He was nominated by AAA President Jeffrey Laitman. Members of the Educational Affairs Committee are responsible for planning the education and teaching content for the AAA’s annual meeting, provide content for the AAA’s Education & Teaching Tools website, and carry out other education-related projects.
     Members of the American Association of Anatomists are the principal educators of medical students in their first year of medical school and work in imaging, cell biology, genetics, molecular development, endocrinology, histology, neuroscience, forensics, microscopy, and physical anthropology. Founded in 1888 for the “advancement of anatomical science,” the AAA, via research, education, and professional development activities, is the professional home for an international community of biomedical researchers and educators focusing on anatomical form and function.
     Jackson, a member of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences faculty since 1998, has served in a leadership capacity with all three major North American anatomical science organizations: the American Association of Anatomists, the Human Anatomy & Physiology Society, and the American Association of Clinical Anatomists. He currently teaches human anatomy to undergraduate, graduate and medical students, as well as courses in scientific writing, responsible conduct of research and the history of science.
     Jackson earned bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and biology from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, and master’s and doctoral degrees from UND. He did a postdoctoral fellowship in cell biology and biochemistry at Vanderbilt University, where he served on the medical faculty.