Meet Jennifer Jackson, MD, FACP, IFMCP

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Jennifer Jackson, M.D., FACP is a Rose Hill native. After graduating with honors from Kansas State University with a bachelor’s degree in biology, she attended medical school and completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita.

Dr. Jackson served as a traditional general internist in Pratt, Kansas, before relocating with her family to the Wichita area, where she joined the faculty in the Department of Internal Medicine at KU School of Medicine-Wichita. Along with teaching future generations of doctors for Kansas, she serves as the Program Director of the Internal Medicine residency program, chief hospitalist and founder of the functional medicine practice at KU School of Medicine-Wichita.

Inspired by the food movement, Jackson and her family started a farm based on regenerative agricultural practices and conservation techniques promoted by Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms and Wes Jackson at The Land Institute. This experience laid the foundation for exploring the functional medicine approach to chronic disease.

After a personal health experience of reversing her own autoimmune thyroid condition using nutritional changes, Dr. Jackson completed training with the Institute for Functional Medicine, learning from experts such as Dr. Mark Hyman and Dr. Terry Wahls.

Dr. Jackson is married to her high school sweetheart, Aaron Jackson, who is principal at Rose Hill High School. They have three children: Kyler, a KSU graduate and attorney practicing criminal defense in Ogden, UT;  Lauren, a KSU graduate and PA student at Utah Valley University; and Brett, an EMT at Via Christi St. Francis ER.

During the summers, you will find Jackson scrambling up the side of a mountain as she chases her goal of climbing the 58 Colorado 14.000-foot peaks. She and her climbing partner are slated to meet this goal August 2026.