[h=3]WHO IS DR. RONNY JACKSON?[/h]Dr. Ronny Jackson is currently a physician to the president for President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, Trump nominated him to run Veterans Affairs.
A Texas native, Jackson attended Texas A&M for undergraduate, and received his medical degree from the University of Texas' Medical Branch, graduating in 1995.
That same year, Jackson began his active duty Naval service in Portsmouth, Virginia. He completed a number of medical internships and became the honor graduate of the Navy’s Undersea Medical Officer Program, before completing his residency at the top of his class in 2004.
The next year, he became part of Operation Iraqi Freedom as an emergency medicine physician in charge of resuscitative medicine.
Jackson was promoted to a White House physician while still deployed in Iraq in 2006. He's served in three administrations - those of Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump - and held a variety of positions, including the physician supervisor for Camp David, before being promoted to physician to the president under Obama in 2013.
Jackson has three children and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
A Texas native, Jackson attended Texas A&M for undergraduate, and received his medical degree from the University of Texas' Medical Branch, graduating in 1995.
That same year, Jackson began his active duty Naval service in Portsmouth, Virginia. He completed a number of medical internships and became the honor graduate of the Navy’s Undersea Medical Officer Program, before completing his residency at the top of his class in 2004.
The next year, he became part of Operation Iraqi Freedom as an emergency medicine physician in charge of resuscitative medicine.
Jackson was promoted to a White House physician while still deployed in Iraq in 2006. He's served in three administrations - those of Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump - and held a variety of positions, including the physician supervisor for Camp David, before being promoted to physician to the president under Obama in 2013.
Jackson has three children and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
