Trauma Medical Director
Ben Taub Hospital
Houston, Texas, United States
Chad T. Wilson MD MPH FACS is a native Houstonian who is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine and serves as the Trauma Medical Director of Ben Taub Hospital, a county hospital that is one of only two level 1 trauma centers in Houston, and serves a community of ~6 million people.
Dr. Wilson earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin where he graduated with Honors in 1997.
Dr. Wilson earned an M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2001.
From 2001-2008, Dr. Wilson completed a residency in general surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, MA.
During residency, Dr. Wilson took a two-year hiatus from clinical training to complete an outcomes research fellowship at the White River Junction VA Hospital in Vermont, and earned a M.P.H. from Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, NH in 2006.
Upon completing his residency in 2008, Dr. Wilson did a one year fellowship in refugee medicine in Kijabe, Kenya where he performed over 630 operative procedures, mostly on poor patients. Many of his patients were internally displaced Kenyans (due to ethnic violence) or Somali refugees living in a Kenyan refugee camp near the border of Somalia in a place called Dadaab with over 200,000 Somali refugees.
In 2009, Dr. Wilson returned to Massachusetts General Hospital where he completed a two year fellowship in Acute Care Surgery at Boston, MA.
In 2011, Dr. Wilson joined the faculty at New York University School of Medicine where he primarily worked at Bellevue Hospital (oldest county hospital in the country).
In 2016, Dr. Wilson returned home to Houston to his current position working in the very same trauma hospital that his mother worked nights as a medical technologist in the blood bank during his youth.
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Monday, December 12, 2022
9:04 AM – 9:21 AM MST