Christopher Taylor Jackson, Md, Mdes

Christopher Taylor Jackson  MD, MDes, passed away November 1, 2021.  He was born in Boulder, Colorado December 16, 1983 and grew up in Littleton, Colorado.  After Littleton High School, he graduated Summa Cum Laude from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a degree in Microbiology and Neuroscience.  While at Miami, he was recognized as the Outstanding Tutor of the Year in Science.  He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity.  He was a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and did his residency in General Surgery.  While in medical school, he started a jazz band, of which he was the percussionist.  Music was a lifelong interest which he pursued enthusiastically and with considerable talent.  He was passionate about medicine, art, engineering, and computer science.  To bring together his varied capabilities and integrate technology with the aesthetic, he earned a Master's of Design from the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning.  Through this program, he became adept not only at designing things, but designing entire systems.  At his death, he was a professor of DAAP at UC.  His long-term plans included returning to his beloved Colorado, where he was an expert skier and enthusiastic but non-expert sailor on Grand Lake, where he had spent part of every summer of his life.

Christopher is survived by his parents, Gregg Jackson and Pat Wooster-Jackson, sister Caitlin (Jason) Hall, niece Kristen and nephew Bryce Hall, uncle Charlie (Marilyn) Wooster, aunt Marjorie (John) Oathout, cousins Mechele, Lisa, Tim, Jeff, Natalie, Tevin, Colton, Grant, David and Hannah, his great-uncle Sharon Wesley (Joan) Jackson, and many more extended family and friends.  Family and friends are invited to gather to celebrate Christopher’s life and share fellowship and stories on November 22, 2021, 11:00 a.m., at Charlie and Marilyn’s barn at 5000 NW 35 ^th Street, Topeka, Kansas 66618.  Luncheon will follow.  In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to GLYC Sailing Foundation, P.O. Box 983, Granby, CO 80446.  The foundation is dedicated to promoting amateur sailing and provides sailing programs for handicapped and disabled.   To leave the family a message, please visit www.davidsonfuneral.com.