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DONALD E. WILSON, MD, MACP Donald E. Wilson, MD, MACP was Senior Vice President for Health Sciences at Howard University from August 2007 until December 2009 when he retired for the second time. Dr. Wilson was dean of the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine from September 1991 until his retirement in 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 became the University of Maryland's first Vice-President for Medical Affairs in 1999. During his tenure the student body became more diverse, the number of minority faculty nearly tripled and external research funding more than quadrupled moving the medical school into the top 10% nationally of public medical schools in research funding. 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 at the University Hospital and Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn. He completed his undergraduate education at Harvard University, received his medical degree from Tufts University, and has received Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Tufts University and SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn, NY. He is board certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine. Dr. Wilson has chaired several federal committees including, the National Institutes 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 (DHHS) Advisory Council. He is past chairman of the board of directors of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the AAMC 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 National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine), the Association of American Physicians and the American Clinical and Climatological Association. Dr. Wilson co-founded the Association for Academic Minority Physicians in 1986- an organization dedicated to increasing he diversity of our nation’s biomedical and bio-scientific work forces. He has received numerous awards and honors. He served on the medical honors society, Alpha Omega Alpha’s national board of directors 2002-2011, and was its vice-president 2004-2011. In 2000 Dr. Wilson received the AAMC’s first Herbert Nickens Award, promoting equality and justice in medicine. Dr. Wilson continues to be engaged and currently has served as the principle investigator of a NIH P 20 award as well a sub-award through the National Research Mentoring Network- an award designed to help increase the diversity of the nation’s bio-scientific and biomedical workforces. In 2022 Dr. Wilson received the American Heart Association’s Watkins-Saunders Award. He also has over 200 publications in the fields of internal medicine, gastroenterology, health care and medical education.
The Donald E. Wilson, MD, MACP Distinguished Professorship was made possible through the generosity of many friends, colleagues, trainees, and organizations in honor of Dr. Donald E. Wilson including: Association of American Medical Colleges Dr. Claudia R. Baquet Dr. Stephen T. Bartlett Mr. David M. Blanken and Mrs. Barbara Friedman Dr. Meredith Bond Dr. Luther T. Clark Dr. Charles H. Epps, Jr. and Mrs. Roselyn P. Epps Dr. David R. Gens HSCB Foundation, Inc. Mr. Gregory F. Handlir Dr. L. Julian Haywood Dr. Stephan L. Kamholz Dr. Anthony F. Lehman M & T Bank Maryland Medical Center Insurance <strong>Program</strong> Dr. James E. McNamee and Mrs. Susan O. McNamee Dr. Vincent D. Pellegrini , Jr. Dr. Mildred E. Phillips Dr. Mary M. Rodgers, Professor Emerita Dr. Thomas M. Scalea Dr. David L. Stewart Dr. Donald E. Wilson and Mrs. Patricia C. Wilson
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