Advisory Panel Member
Charles B. Wilson, M.D.
Professor of Neurosurgery Emeritus
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94143
USA
BTFC Advisory Panel Member 2005-2007
Charles Wilson graduated summa cum laude from Tulane University’s College of Arts and Sciences (now Tulane College). He received his medical and neurosurgical training at Tulane Medical School before obtaining faculty appointments at Tulane, LSU and the University of Kentucky. A pioneer in the surgery of pituitary tumors, Wilson served as Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery and Director of the Brain Tumor Research Center at the University of California at San Francisco beginning in 1968. He retired as Chairman of the Department in 1994 to pursue new interests.
While continuing an active practice, Wilson obtained a Master’s degree in Health Administration and became a Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Future, a long-range forecasting organization in Menlo Park, California. More recently he joined the staff of the Health Technology Center, also a long-range forecasting think tank, in San Francisco. His current research involves emerging medical technologies, particularly those related to molecular genetics. He is the author of more than 600 scientific publications. Currently he is a consultant in the Life Sciences.
Among other appointments, Wilson recently completed a term on the National Cancer Advisory Board. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. At Tulane, he is a member of the Leadership Committee, the Tulane University Health Sciences Center Board of Governors, and the Tulane University Health Sciences Center 170th Anniversary Committee which he chaired. Honors received at Tulane have been Outstanding Alumnus ( School of Medicine), Tulane Surgical Society Award of Merit, Doctor of Science (H.C.), Outstanding Leadership ( Health Sciences Center), and Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been honored with the UCSF Medal. In 1999 he co-founded Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance working in sub-Saharan Africa and more recently was appointed Senior Advisor to UCSF Global Health Sciences.
He has lectured widely on subjects related to his major interests: NeuroOncology, Adoption and Diffusion of Surgical Technologies, Comprehensive Cancer Centers, Neuroscience Institutes and Pituitary Tumors. He has given lectures within North America and throughout Europe and Asia.
He lives with his wife, Francie Petrocelli, in San Francisco.
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