Ben Jackson, M.D. is a professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine physician at MUSC Children's Health. He grew up in the Charleston area and graduated from medical school here at MUSC before completing his pediatrics residency and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Dr. Jackson serves as the PEM director of procedural sedation and the institutional principal investigator for the multi-center Pediatric Sedation Research Consortium. He has served on the Society for Pediatric Sedation Board of Directors and on procedural sedation committees for the American College of Emergency Physicians. He co-edited The Pediatric Procedural Sedation Handbook, which was published in 2018, and lectures locally and nationally on procedural sedation of children in emergency department settings.