Roy Wilson named new UCD chancellor
The University of Colorado Board of Regents unanimously voted on the president’s recommendation to name M. Roy Wilson, MD, MS, as the new chancellor for CU’s Denver and Health Sciences Center.
Wilson comes from the four-campus Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, where he has served as president since 2003. He will take the helm July 1 as part of a five-year contract ending June 30, 2011.
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“ The University of Colorado Denver aspires to be the premier urban research university in the country, and the Health Sciences Center is among the top public health sciences centers in the nation,” Wilson said. “The prospect of shepherding the UCD as it consolidates the two cultures and missions of these universities is extremely attractive to me because of the opportunities it presents in shaping higher education, research and health care in the state of Colorado and the nation.”
Wilson succeeds former UCD Chancellor James Shore, who retired late last year after seven years at the university’s helm. Gregory Stiegmann, MD, has been serving as interim chancellor.
“ We are deeply grateful for the outstanding work of Dr. Stiegmann. He has been a tremendous asset in providing leadership for the Denver and Health Sciences Center campus,” said CU President Hank Brown.
“ Dr. Wilson is joining the Denver and Health Sciences Center campus at an exciting time,” said Brown. “His experience leading Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and being part of a system culture will prove invaluable with the management of two distinct cultures at the Denver and Health Sciences Center campuses. He has a keen insight into the two campuses.”
Born in Japan, Wilson received his medical degree from Harvard University Medical School and his Master of Science in epidemiology at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Public Health. He performed both his ophthalmology residency and glaucoma fellowship at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary at Harvard.
In 1998, Wilson was appointed dean of the Creighton University School of Medicine, and served as both dean and vice president for health sciences from 1999 to 2003. Prior to that, he was a professor of ophthalmology at UCLA’s Jules Stein Eye Institute and at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science. In 2003 he was appointed president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and inducted into the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science. An international glaucoma expert, Wilson has delivered more than 200 invited lectures in the United States and abroad, and has published more than 200 articles, book chapters and abstracts.
“ Dr. Wilson’s perceptive understanding of the dynamics of a recently consolidated campus will enable him to be successful in leading the Denver and Health Sciences Center along its upward path as a premier urban research institution,” said Paul Schauer, CU regent chair.
