Dr. Robert Jackson is a nationally respected physician, educator, and healthcare innovator with decades of experience in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. Throughout his career, he has combined academic leadership, clinical excellence, and a deep commitment to expanding healthcare access for underserved rural communities.
As the founder and president of Premier Specialty Network (PSN), Dr. Jackson pioneered a unique outreach model that brought high-level specialty medical care to smaller hospitals and rural populations across the Midwest and beyond. His work has helped thousands of patients receive the specialty care they need closer to home.
In the years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Jackson developed a particular interest in the emerging field of Longevity Medicine and the use of advanced regenerative and restorative therapies, including nutraceuticals, peptides, and mesenchymal stem cell extracellular vesicles (exosomes). His early work in these areas would later prove invaluable during the pandemic.
As patients across the country struggled with severe respiratory complications caused by post-inflammatory tissue damage, or the chronic fatigue, cognitive dysfunction (brain fog), and other debilitating symptoms associated with Long COVID, Dr. Jackson began applying these therapies in innovative ways to help patients who had often been told little else could be done. His success in treating difficult and previously “incurable” post-COVID conditions quickly gained national attention.
Since that time, Dr. Jackson has remained committed not only to caring for patients, but also to educating other physicians on the treatment strategies and protocols he has developed. Until recently that had consisted primarily of medical lectures to colleagues, but he has now chosen to provide it directly to both patients and physicians through this web site with the hope of improving access to care by helping more physicians incorporate these treatments into their own practices.
Known for his compassionate patient-centered philosophy, Dr. Jackson continues to combine traditional medical expertise with emerging science in order to improve quality of life, restore function, and promote long-term health and vitality for his patients.
Dr. Jackson founded Premier Specialty Network to improve access to specialty healthcare services in rural communities. Under his leadership, PSN expanded into a multi-state healthcare organization providing medical and surgical specialty services to hospitals and clinics throughout the United States.
Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine
(Now A.T. Still University)
Dr. Jackson spent much of his career mentoring and training the next generation of physicians, and shaping the future of medical education through his associations with A.T. Still University and the academic leadership roles he filled there.
Southern Missouri
Dr. Jackson completed four years of public health service providing medical care to rural communities in southern Missouri. This experience strongly influenced his lifelong commitment to improving rural healthcare access.
Dr. Jackson has provided rheumatology services to numerous hospitals and medical centers throughout Missouri and Iowa, including:
Dr. Jackson has been an active member of numerous respected medical organizations, including:
Dr. Jackson has received numerous professional distinctions recognizing his leadership, teaching excellence, and contributions to medicine, including:
Dr. Jackson has contributed to multiple medical publications and educational programs involving:
His academic work helped advance physician education and improve understanding of complex rheumatologic conditions.
Dr. Jackson believes exceptional healthcare begins with listening carefully to patients, building long-term relationships, and treating the whole person rather than simply managing symptoms.
His career has been guided by a commitment to:
Over the course of his career, Dr. Robert Jackson has earned a reputation not only as an accomplished rheumatologist, but also as an educator, innovator, mentor, and advocate for patients in rural America. His work has helped shape healthcare delivery models that continue to improve access to specialty care for communities that might otherwise go without it.
In recent years, Dr. Jackson’s willingness to explore emerging therapies and challenge conventional limitations has made him a recognized voice in the evolving fields of Longevity and regenerative medicine. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients suffering from persistent respiratory complications, or the severe fatigue, and cognitive symptoms associated with Long COVID found hope through the treatment approaches he developed using nutraceuticals, peptides, and exosomes.
What began as an effort to help his own patients soon evolved into a broader mission to educate other physicians and expand access to care for individuals suffering from chronic inflammatory and post-infection conditions. Through lectures, professional collaboration, and now the direct patient education on this website, Dr. Jackson continues to share the knowledge and protocols he believes can meaningfully improve lives.
His career reflects a lifelong commitment to innovation, compassion, medical education, and the belief that patients deserve physicians who are willing to keep searching for answers when others have given up.
