Christina Jackson
Christina Jackson, MD
Office (215) 316-5151
Fax (215) 829-3361
801 Spruce Street
Pennsylvania Hospital
Philadelphia, PA 19107
About
Christina Jackson
Dr. Christina Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Penn Medicine. She specializes in open skull base surgery, minimally invasive surgery, endoscopic skull base and pituitary surgery, and complex brain tumor surgery. Dr. Jackson is uniquely fellowship-trained in both open and endoscopic endonasal skull base approaches and aims to select the most effective and less invasive approach to each individual patient.
Dr. Jackson’s active research includes developing novel immune based therapies for brain tumors and skull base tumors as well as optimizing outcomes for patients with skull base tumors.
Dr. Jackson performing advanced minimally invasive surgeries for skull base tumor
Dr. Jackson on Advanced Approaches to Skull Base Surgery
Primary Specialty
Neurosurgeon
Practice
Christina Jackson, MD
Gender
Female
Education
Harvard University
Training
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Accepting New Patients
Insurances Accepted
Aetna US Healthcare, Amerihealth Caritas, Amerihealth Caritas Medicare, Capital Blue Cross, Centivo Health Plan, Cigna, Cigna HealthSpring, Clover Health Plan, Devon Health Services (Americare), Gateway Health Plan, Geisinger Health Plan, Geisinger Medicaid, Global Medical Management, HealthAmerica / HealthAssurance, a Coventry Plan, HealthPartners, HealthPartners Medicare, HealthSmart, Highmark Blue Shield, Highmark Blue Shield Medicare, Homestead Smart Health Plans/Claim Watcher, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Humana / Choicecare, Humana / Medicare, Imagine Health 360, Independence Blue Cross (Keystone East), Keystone First, Keystone First Medicare, NJ Medicaid, NJ Qualcare, Oscar Health Plan of PA, Oxford Health Plan, PA Health and Wellness (Centene) Medicare, PA Medicaid, PA Medicare, Preferred Health Care/PA Preferred Health Networks, Provider Partners Health Plan, Rail Road Medicare / Palmetto GBA, Tricare, United Healthcare, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan, UPMC Health Plan, US Family Health Plan, Veterans Choice Program
Degrees
Medical Doctor
Admitting Hospitals
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Lancaster General Hospital, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Pennsylvania Hospital
Services
acoustic neuroma removal, anterior temporal lobectomy, auditory brainstem implant, awake brain surgery, awake craniotomy, biopsy of brain, biopsy of skull, brain cancer genomics, brain surgery, burr hole, cerebral decompression, cortical mapping, cranial nerve repair, cranial puncture, craniectomy, craniocervical junction surgery, craniotomy, csf shunt removal, ear, nose and throat surgery, electrocorticography, encephalocele repair, endonasal transsphenoidal approach, endoscopic endonasal approach, endoscopic neurosurgery, endoscopic third ventriculostomy, epilepsy surgery, epilepsy surgery evaluation, focal resection surgery brain, gamma knife perfexion, gamma knife radiosurgery, intraoperative mri, intraventricular endoscopy, lobectomy of brain, lumbar drain, lumboperitoneal shunt placement, microneurosurgery, microsurgery, microvascular decompression, microvascular surgery, mri guided focused ultrasound, needle biopsy of brain, needle biopsy of cerebral meninges, nerve decompression, neuroendoscopy, open biopsy of brain, optic nerve decompression, optic nerve surgery, orbital nerve decompression, percutaneous trigeminal rhizotomy, peripheral nerve surgery, pituitary surgery, repair of brain, resection of cerebral arteriovenous malformation (avm), rhizotomy, selective dorsal rhizotomy, skull base approach, standard transsphenoidal approach, stereotactic ablative radiotherapy, stereotactic brain biopsy, stereotactic eeg, stereotactic radiosurgery, transnasal repair csf leak, transpetrosal approaches, ventricular shunt, ventriculo peritoneal shunt, ventriculostomy