Brian Jackson is a pediatric intensivist and medical director for Clinical Ethics at Children’s Hospital Colorado. He joined the ethics committee in 2010 and has been a member of the ethics consult team since that time. He is a current member and past co-chair of the Colorado Multiple Institutional Review board pediatrics panel. He is one of the Trail Directors for the Bioethics and Humanities Trail for students at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is also the President-Elect of the Children's Hospital Colorado Medical Staff and serves as PICU medical director for the Children's One Flight Team. He is particularly interested in ethical decision making around brain death and organ recovery and about resource allocation of very high-cost novel medical therapies.
Education, Licensure & Certifications
- Undergraduate: Pomona College, Claremont, CA (Religious Studies)
- Medical Education: George Washington University, Washington, DC
- Master of Arts: Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL (Bioethics and Health Policy)
- Internship/Residency: University of Colorado (Pediatrics)
- Fellowship: University of Colorado (Pediatric Critical Care)
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Courses
2025-26 Speakers Bureau Topics
- Pediatric ethics in general
- End of life issues (brain death, organ donation, withdrawal of life sustaining treatment, etc.)
Research
Research interests include quality improvement in ethics consultation services, the ethics of clinical research, medical education in ethics, and shared decision making in pediatric patients. Also:
- Organ Recovery and Transplantation Ethics
- Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria
- Multidisciplinary Ethical Decision Making
- Moral Distress Rounds/Debriefing
- High Cost Therapeutics and Resource Allocation