Focused specialty care for hearing, ear, and skull base disorders
Dr. Neal Jackson provides advanced surgical and medical care for patients with hearing loss, chronic ear disease, cochlear implant needs, and complex skull base conditions. His practice is built around focused subspecialty expertise, clear communication, and long-term outcomes.
This is a referral-based specialty practice for adults and children across the Gulf South. Many patients and families arrive after months or years of symptoms, hearing changes, recurrent infections, dizziness, or a new diagnosis that feels unfamiliar or overwhelming. The goal is to provide thoughtful specialist care for both routine and complex ear problems in a setting where experience is concentrated in this anatomy every day.
Neal M. Jackson, MD, FACS
Ear & Skull Base Surgeon (Neurotologist)
For Children and Adults
Why patients choose Dr. Jackson
Dr. Jackson is a fellowship-trained neurotologist, a rare subspecialist focused specifically on disorders of hearing, the ear, and the lateral skull base. That matters because many of the problems treated in this practice sit at the intersection of delicate ear anatomy, hearing outcomes, balance function, reconstruction, and skull base decision-making.
His practice includes both adult and pediatric patients, as well as high-volume ear surgery, cochlear implants, chronic ear disease surgery, revision ear surgery, and skull base collaboration when appropriate. Patients benefit from a specialist whose work is concentrated in this anatomy rather than spread broadly across general ENT care.
Specialized areas of care
Core areas of focus include cochlear implants, cholesteatoma, eardrum repair and mastoid surgery, acoustic neuroma, and repair of temporal bone encephaloceles and cerebrospinal fluid leaks.
These are conditions where experience matters — not only in the operating room, but also in deciding when surgery is appropriate, how to preserve hearing when possible, and how to guide patients over time with the right long-term plan.
Care for adults and children
This practice serves adults, children, and families who need specialized hearing and ear care. Some patients are referred because they already have a clear diagnosis. Others arrive because symptoms remain unresolved, hearing continues to worsen, drainage keeps returning, or prior treatment has not fully solved the problem.
A major strength of neurotology is the ability to care for patients across age groups while still maintaining highly focused expertise in hearing, chronic ear disease, reconstruction, cochlear implantation, and skull base ear anatomy.
How to use this site
The most useful next step is usually to identify the condition page that best matches the diagnosis or concern, learn the basics in clear language, and then move forward through the referral pathway for specialist evaluation.
Over time, this site can also serve as a resource center for educational videos, written guides, and condition-specific explanations that help patients and families continue learning after the office visit.