Dr. Wilson is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at Tufts Medical Center. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1987 and completed his training in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, where he also served as Chief Medical Resident. Subsequently, he completed a General Medicine Fellowship at Harvard Medical School and earned a Masters of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health (1993). Dr. Wilson was the recipient of both a Picker-Commonwealth Scholars Award (1995-1997) and Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Faculty Scholars Award (1997-2001). His research interests are in structural elements of health care delivery systems, and how these structural elements affect patients' experience of their care, physician-patient interactions, patients' health outcomes, and medication adherence. He is particularly interested in studying the care of elderly persons and those with chronic conditions such as HIV infection and depression.
Dr. Wilson is the PI of a recently completed multi-site project funded by NIDA that tested an intervention to improve adherence with antiretroviral therapies for persons with HIV. In a related project funded by an R21 from NIMH, Dr. Wilson and his team have developed and are testing a new method to code audiotapes of physician-patient office visits for antiretroviral medication adherence content. This work has been extended in a new R01 from NIMH that will use this system to better understand how physician-patient dialogue affects disparities in HIV care. Dr. Wilson has a K24 from NCRR, and is PI of a grant funded by AHRQ to conduct a four-year continuation of longitudinal study comparing conventional and capitated Medicare that began in 1998 and is currently following 10,000 patients from 13 different states. Since 1998 Dr. Wilson has been Director of the Outcomes and Biostatistics Core of the Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Centers for AIDS Research. He is also Co-PI of the newly awarded Tufts CTSA award, and Co-Director of the Tufts Clinical and Translational Research Institute Research Portal.
