General Internal Medicine

George Lee Jackson, PhD

Professor in Population Health Sciences
Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Professor in Medicine
Campus mail 215 Morris Street, Duke Department of Population Health Sci, Durham, NC 27710
Phone (919) 286-0411
Email address george.l.jackson@duke.edu

Areas of expertise: Epidemiology, Health Services Research, and Implementation Science

George L. Jackson, Ph.D., MHA is a healthcare epidemiologist and implementation scientist with the Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (also known as ADAPT) at the Durham Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System, where he leads the Implementation and Improvement Science Lab/Core.  Additionally, he is a Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences, Department of Medicine (Division of General Infernal Medicine), and Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke.  He also co-teaches evidence-based practice for the Duke Physician Assistant Program.  George’s research focuses on the development, implementation, and evaluation of team-based systems for treatment and prevention of chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and moral injury.  He also works to develop and evaluate structures to identify, replicate, and spread innovative practices within learning health systems.  He has collaborated closely with a number of healthcare systems such as the VA, Duke, and DoD with the goal of linking research and quality improvement.  Among other projects, George is currently the corresponding principal investigator of the VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) funded Dynamic Diffusion Network (DDN) QUERI Program and Spreading Healthcare Access, Activities, Research and Knowledge (SHAARK) Partnered Evaluation Initiative.

Education and Training

  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2003

Grants

Publications

Chao, Herta H., Amy R. Schwartz, Janis Hersh, Laura Hunnibell, George L. Jackson, Dawn T. Provenzale, James Schlosser, Luke M. Stapleton, Leah L. Zullig, and Michal G. Rose. “Improving colorectal cancer screening and care in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare system.” Clin Colorectal Cancer 8, no. 1 (January 2009): 22–28. https://doi.org/10.3816/CCC.2009.n.004.

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19203893
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Gellad, Ziad F., David G. Weiss, Dennis Ahnen, David A. Lieberman, George L. Jackson, and Dawn Provenzale. “Colonoscopy Withdrawal Time and Risk of Neoplasia On Follow-Up Colonoscopy: Results from VA Cooperative Study Program 380.” In Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 67:AB80–AB80. Elsevier BV, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2008.03.036.

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Jackson, George L., Morris Weinberger, Natia S. Hamilton, and David Edelman. “Racial/ethnic and educational-level differences in diabetes care experiences in primary care.” Prim Care Diabetes 2, no. 1 (February 2008): 39–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcd.2007.11.002.

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18684419
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Jackson, George L., Natia S. Hamilton, and Larry A. Tupler. “Detecting traumatic brain injury among veterans of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom.” N C Med J 69, no. 1 (January 2008): 43–47.

PMID
18429566
Scholars@Duke

Townsend, Mary L., George L. Jackson, Rose Smith, and Kenneth H. Wilson. “Association between pharmacy medication refill-based adherence rates and cd4 count and viral-load responses: A retrospective analysis in treatment-experienced adults with HIV.” Clin Ther 29, no. 4 (April 2007): 711–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinthera.2007.04.006.

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17617294
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Jackson, G. L., D. Edelman, and M. Weinberger. “Prevalence of refractory hypertension among primary care patients with diabetes.” In Journal of General Internal Medicine, 22:56–56. SPRINGER, 2007.

Scholars@Duke

Jackson, George L., David Edelman, and Morris Weinberger. “Simultaneous control of intermediate diabetes outcomes among Veterans Affairs primary care patients.” J Gen Intern Med 21, no. 10 (October 2006): 1050–56. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00519.x.

PMID
16970554
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Dominick, Kelli L., Yvonne M. Golightly, and George L. Jackson. “Arthritis prevalence and symptoms among US non-veterans, veterans, and veterans receiving Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare.” J Rheumatol 33, no. 2 (February 2006): 348–54.

PMID
16465668
Scholars@Duke

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