Elisabeth Wilson, MD, MPH
Clinical Professor
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

Elisabeth Wilson, MD, MPH, MS-HPEd is currently serving as Chair of Family Medicine at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. In this role, Dr. Wilson oversees the academic mission of the department and co-leads a clinical service line. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, she also has the opportunity to teach, pursue her scholarly interests, and see patients in a community-based health center.

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Dr. Wilson has retained a volunteer appointment in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She values the ongoing collaboration with her cherished colleagues at UCSF and the opportunity to teach students, residents and faculty when she visits the Bay Area.

Dr. Wilson graduated from the combined MD/MPH program at Tufts University School of Medicine and completed her residency training in Family Medicine at UCSF. After a three-year health services research fellowship, Dr. Wilson joined the UCSF faculty in 2005. At UCSF, she served as the first Director of the Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved (PRIME-US) in the School of Medicine, the Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and one of the Dean's Diversity Leaders in the Differences Matter Initiative. In 2017, Dr. Wilson returned to the East Coast to be closer to her family, taking on the role of Department Chair at Maine Medical Center, a Tufts University affiliate.

Education & Training

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• MS-HPEd Education Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for the Health Professions 2017
• Residency Family and Community Medicine University of California San Francisco @ the San Francisco General Hospital 2001
• MD, MPH Medicine, Public Health Tufts University School of Medicine 1998

Websites

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• PRIME-US (meded.ucsf.edu)
• Primary Care Leadership Academy (PCLA) (pcla.ucsf.edu)

Videos

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• Mission in a Minute (youtube.com)
• AAMC/Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award (youtube.com)

Publications (8)

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Family PracticeAttitude to HealthPublic OpinionHealth Services AccessibilityConcept FormationStudents, MedicalCultural DiversitySocial JusticePhysiciansLanguageEmigration and ImmigrationProfessional Practice LocationPhysician-Patient RelationsHealth EquityAttitude of Health Personnel

• Diversity, Inclusion, and Health Equity in Academic Family Medicine.
  Family medicine 2022 Jacobs CK, Douglas M, Ravenna P, Wilson E, Piggott C, Chrusciel T, Strothers H
• Meeting Optimization Program: A "Workshop in a Box" to Create Meetings That Are Transformational Tools for Institutional Change.
  MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 2017 Kuo AK, Wilson E, Kawahara S, Horning D, Belger S, Lucey C
• Specialty choice and practice location of physician alumni of University of California premedical postbaccalaureate programs.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2012 Lupton K, Vercammen-Grandjean C, Forkin J, Wilson E, Grumbach K
• Assessing students' socio-cultural knowledge frameworks through concept.
  Medical education 2008 Adler SR, Wilson E, Coulter YZ
• Minority faculty voices on diversity in academic medicine: perspectives from one school.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2008 Mahoney MR, Wilson E, Odom KL, Flowers L, Adler SR
• Effects of limited English proficiency and physician language on health care comprehension.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2005 Wilson E, Chen AH, Grumbach K, Wang F, Fernandez A
• End-of-life decisions by GPs.
  Family medicine 2005 Wilson E
• Medical student, physician, and public perceptions of health care disparities.
  Family medicine 2004 Wilson E, Grumbach K, Huebner J, Agrawal J, Bindman AB