Dr. Donald E. Wilson, MD, MACG
Dr. Donald E. Wilson, MD, MACG, served as dean of the University
of Maryland School of Medicine from September 1991 until
September 2006. He was the nation’s first African-American
dean of an accredited non minority medical school. In addition
to serving as dean, Dr. Wilson was appointed as the University
of Maryland’s first vice president for medical affairs
in 1999.
Dr. Wilson came to Maryland after 11 years as professor
and chairman of the department of medicine, State University
of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn. He was physician-in-chief
of the University Hospital of Brooklyn and Kings County
Hospital Center, Brooklyn. He completed his undergraduate
education at Harvard University and received his medical
degree from Tufts University. He is board certified in gastroenterology
and internal medicine.
Dr. Wilson has served as chairman
of several federal committees including, the National Institute
of Health’s
(NIH) Digestive Diseases Advisory Board, the Food and Drug
Administration’s Gastroenterology Drugs Advisory Committee,
and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (Department
of Health and Human Services) Advisory Council. He was also
a member of the advisory committee to the director of the
NIH. Dr. Wilson served as chairman of the Maryland Health
Care Commission from 1994-2004, one of two regulatory commissions
overseeing health care in Maryland. He is also a member
of the Emergency Medical Services Commission of Maryland.
Dr. Wilson is past chairman of the Association of American
Medical Colleges (AAMC). In 2000-2001, he was chairman of
the Council of Deans of US medical schools. He is the first
African-American to hold each of these positions.
He is
a member of several medical/research societies, including
the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences,
the Association of American Physicians, and the American
Clinical and Climatological Association. Dr. Wilson is a
Master of the American College of Physicians, an honor bestowed
on less than one percent of members. Dr. Wilson co-founded
the Association for Academic Minority Physicians in 1986.
He has received numerous awards and honors, including election
to membership in Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), the national medical
honors society. He now serves on the AOA board of directors
and also as vice president. Dr. Wilson also received the
Baltimore Urban League's Whitney M. Young, Jr. Humanitarian
Award and the Boy Scouts of America Health Services Good
Scout Leadership Award in 1999. In 2000, he was awarded
the AAMC’s first Herbert Nickens Award. In 2001, Dr.
Wilson was the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America
honoree, and he received the Monumental Medical Society’s
Medical Pioneer award.
Dr. Wilson serves on several hospital
boards, the William S. Baer Board of the Baltimore City
Schools, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Board, and the
Provident Bank Board. In 2001, he was named the John Z.
and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor at the University
of Maryland School of Medicine. In 2003, Wilson received
the prestigious Frederick Douglass Award from the University
System of Maryland Board of Regents. In 2004, he received
the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s
(NIH) first Extramural Associates Distinguished Service
Award. In 2006, he received the National Medical Association’s
Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Wilson has also served
as president of University Physicians, INC, the medical
school’s clinical practice organization, since 1996.
Dr.
Wilson has more than 150 publications in the fields of internal
medicine, gastroenterology, health care, and medical education.
He has served or is serving as editor or associate editor
of several medical journals.
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