Calvin MD

Dr. Wilson has been involved in the development of family medicine and education in a variety of settings for over 25 years, and in international community and medical development projects for over 18 years. He just retired from the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine as an associate professor of family medicine, and associate professor of public health in the Colorado School of Public Health.

Dr. Wilson has been the Director of the Center for Global Health of the University of Colorado Anschutz Health Sciences Center, which is dedicated to promoting and coordinating a variety of global health-related activities. He has been most recently working in Rwanda as the director of a partnership between the University of Colorado and the National University of Rwanda to develop their newly reopened residency programs and develop a new family and community medicine residency. In the past, He has developed a primary health care continuing education program for the physicians, nurses, midwives, health workers and laboratory technicians of the public sector of Jordan, as well as consulting with the Jordan Medical Council in the development of their national CME initiative.

He also initiated the training of the first primary health care trainers in post-war Iraq, who continued the first phase of primary health care training across Iraq, and continued training in Iraq since November 2006. He developed the first university-affiliated family medicine program in Ecuador, and directed a community health development project on the Onzole River of northern Ecuador. He has been active in the Global Health Medical Education Consortium and as a consultant with the Center for International Health Initiatives of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Dr. Wilson has participated in field research in the management of venomous snake bites, control of onchocerchosis, and in the use of natural folk remedies in the control of intestinal parasites. He has a range of interests in the control of tropical illnesses such as malaria, the effectiveness of community health programs and medical training methodologies across cultures, and in the sustainability of health development interventions in the developing world. For his work he has been awarded the Smilkstein Award in International Family Medicine of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (Oct. 2003), and the Humanitarian of the Year Award of the American Academy of Family Practice (Oct. 2005).