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David J. Wilson, M.D., Director |
Dr. Wilson is Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, Director of the Casey Eye Institute, and Thiele-Petti Chair in Ophthalmology in the School of Medicine @ Oregon Health & Science University. He assumed the chairmanship of ophthalmology in 2005. Before becoming chair, he served as director of the Department of Ophthalmology residency program and the retina fellowship program. He is director of the Christensen Eye Pathology Laboratory at Casey Eye Institute. As department chair, Dr. Wilson provides the institutional leadership and the clinical and academic experience necessary to continue building a program of national prominence.
Dr. Wilson is a member of the Verhoeff Society, the Macula Society, and the American Ophthalmological Society. In 2007, he began serving on the American Board of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Wilson received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa) and his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine (Alpha Omega Alpha). He completed his residency in ophthalmology at OHSU, a research and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Ophthalmic Consultants in Boston.
Dr. Wilson’s primary areas of interest include eye pathology, clinicopathologic correlation of ocular disease, macular degeneration and surgery, and ocular oncology. As chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, Dr. Wilson limits his practice to ocular oncology.
