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Jason W. Wilson, MD, PhD, CPE, FACEP is Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida where he also serves as the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Tampa General Hospital. Dr. Wilson also holds a PhD in Anthropology and has an affiliated faculty appointment with the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. His research considers the role of a new clinical anthropology in the development of patient pathways utilizing anthropological theory and methods. Dr. Wilson serves as the Medical Director for Transitions of Care as well as the the Research Director for the USF Department of Emergency Medicine.
about
Jason Wilson, MD, PhD, CPE, FACEP is an academic healthcare leader and medical anthropologist with an interest in developing patient-centered pathways that are medically efficacious but also consider the role of structural and cultural forces in determining health inequities and disparities.
Overall this approach reconsiders the role and position of the emergency department and how medicine can address social determinants of health by creating new assemblages of care and placement of anthropologists directly into the clinical space.
Current work includes the creation of syndemic interventions to solve complex healthcare problems, the development and treatment of anticoagulation and bleed reversal pathways, pathways that improve the ED based treatment of patients with sickle cell disease, HIV/HCV screening, HIV/HCV linkage and expansion of harm reduction programs to identify, link, and/or treat HIV and HCV even in the emergency department and proximate community through ED based prehospital programs, as well as the stabilization and linkage to care of patients with opioid use and other substance use disorders. Dr. Wilson plays a significant role in the operational management and design of process flow of the ED at Tampa General Hospital. He was highly engaged in the response to Covid-19 in the hospital and community, appearing over 100 times on TV, internet based platforms and radio.
Dr. Wilson has received numerous grants and awards that fund his research and academic work while also staying busy seeing patients at a large Level-1 Academic trauma center in Tampa, Florida. Wilson has presented at many international, national, state and regional conferences and has multiple peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Wilson was instrumental in coordinating the emergency medicine coverage of local NFL games from 2015-2023 and served as a team emergency medicine physician for the Tampa Bay Lightning for 9 seasons. In addition, Wilson serves on numerous academic and community boards, conducts peer review for medical journals, and educates premedical and medical students. Jason Wilson is an Associate Professor at the Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, with a core faculty role in resident education.
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September 11, 2024
April 24, 2024 Jason Wilson, MD, PhD is now the incoming inaugural Chair of the newly created University of South Florida Department of Emergency Medicine at the Morsani College of Medicine
April 19, 2023 Jason Wilson has received the USF Department of Anthropology Friends of Anthropology Award
April 9, 2024. Dr. Wilson presented the syndemic model for HIV, HCV, Opioid Use Disorder to the CDC Director of National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) and the CHAC panel at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.
February 2, 2024. Dr. Wilson has launched the ED Bridge Clinic for HCV and Opioid Use Disorder Co-located care
October 19, 2023: Dr. Wilson successfully defended his PhD in Anthropology at the the University of South Florida.
November 30, 2023. New Publication! Exploring Lived Experiences of Gunshot Wound Survivors A key to Ethnographically Informed Public Health Interventions for Curbing Firearm Violence.
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December 1, 2022: Jason W. Wilson, MD was named Division Chief of Emergency Medicine
Jason W. Wilson, MD is completing a PhD in anthropology at the University of South Florida, where he is an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Anthropology. His dissertation considers assemblage formation in clinical spaces and the expansion of syndemic models to co-located treatment of opioid use disorder and HCV. Expected completion date is Spring 2023.
January 2022: Jason W. Wilson published his first book, Clinical Anthropology 2.0: Improving Medical Education and the Patient Experience with co-author Roberta Baer, PhD. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield.
January 2021: Dr. Wilson was appointed to the inaugural leadership team of the new USF Center for Justice Research and Policy.
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Clinical Anthropology SfAA 2024
sfaa wilson med ed 2024
ACEP EMRA Sim Wars 2023 Round 1 University of South Florida Emergency Medicine
Dr. Jason Wilson and Dr. Peter Chang. TGH. Senate Committee on Health Policy 01/17/23
LISTERIA 2022 OUTBREAK JULY 1 FOX 13
TEAMHealth Blood Drive Jason Wilson, MD
ACGME Emergency Medicine Residency Milestones 2022
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