Dr. Roy Wilson begins as chancellor of UCD
M. Roy Wilson, MD, MS, took the helm July 1 as the chancellor of the University of Colorado Denver.
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As chancellor, he will oversee the three UCD campuses, with a combined total of more than 28,000 students and 8,118 employees. He joins the university as it oversees final construction of the campus at Fitzsimons.
” The University of Colorado Denver aspires to be the premier urban research university in the country, and the University of Colorado Denver is among the top public health sciences centers in the nation,” Wilson said. “The prospect of shepherding UCD as it consolidates 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.
“ Dr. Wilson is joining the Denver and Anschutz Medical Campus at an exciting time,” said CU President Hank 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 Anschutz Medical 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.
