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Office Artifacts: Angela Jackson

MED associate dean shares Boston City Hospital memorabilia

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As the old Boston City Hospital, built in 1864, was being torn down more than two decades ago to make way for the new Boston Medical Center, Angela Jackson went on a salvage mission.

“I was part of the crew that came in at 4 a.m. with the National Guard to make sure that patients were getting safely moved into the new building,” says Jackson, who served for a year as chief resident at Boston City Hospital and is now a School of Medicine associate professor of medicine and associate dean for student affairs. “When the hospital was finally empty, I went around with my boss and we just collected stuff. We got an old stretcher.”

Several of those artifacts now reside in Jackson’s office in the school’s A building. Besides a teaching career focused on health policy, primary care education, and skill development for clinical teachers, she also has an active primary care practice at Boston Medical Center.