Dr. Jeffrey Morris Apple, who is board certified in general and vascular surgery, added the specialty of vascular surgery to Jackson Surgical Associates when he joined the clinic in July 2007. Vascular surgeons are trained in the diagnosis and medical and surgical treatment of peripheral vascular problems, which include the blood vessels of the arms, legs, neck and abdomen. Dr. Apple is the first surgeon in Jackson to offer thoracic aortic stent grafting for thoracic aneurysms. Dr. Apple is from Dallas, Texas. He received his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University. After completing medical school at the University of Texas HSC in San Antonio, he went on to residency at UT Southwestern/Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. Before completing his fellowship in vascular surgery at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, he served four years in the U.S. Navy as a staff general surgeon at the Naval Medical Center San Diego. During that time, he was deployed twice to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and an active member in the Society of Vascular Surgery, Parkland Surgical Society and Alpha Omega Alpha. Dr. Apple and his wife, Trudy, have two children. He enjoys traveling, fly fishing, scuba diving and history.