Neurosurgery Department, UF College of Medicine
Kelvin Wilson, MD.
KELVIN WILSON, M.D. was born in Jackson, MS and subsequently lived throughout the south and mid-west as an Army dependent. He attended the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on full scholarship graduating with a B.S. in Biology in 2005. In 2006 he attended East Tennessee State University's James H. Quillen College of Medicine where he achieved his M.D.
Dr. Wilson graduated in the top 3 of 66 students with a GPA of 3.9. He was elected to AOA as a junior, serving as vice-president, and was instrumental in planning/organizing/participating in his senior service project, "2nd Annual Trot 4 Tots 5K" where $2500 was raised for the area children's advocacy center. Dr. Wilson was also elected to the Gold Humanism Honor Society as a junior, where he was key in bringing the NY Times best-selling author of "Look Me in the Eye" John Robison to ETSU, who gave a highly attended motivational talk and a series lectures on Asperger syndrome and the autism spectrum. Additionally, Dr. Wilson served as a 2LT in the reserves as an Army Health Professions Scholarship Program student at Quillen. He is now promoted to Captain in the Army on active duty while training at UF.
At his honor's convocation he received the Outstanding Performance in Surgery Award for the student with the highest grade during junior surgery clerkship, and the first ever recipient of the Phillip John Hinton, M.D. Career in Surgery Award, presented to the graduating student entering a surgical field with the most promise to have an outstanding career in surgery.
He plans on pursuing a military and subsequent civilian academic career in neurosurgery. Neurosurgery interests vary between complex and minimally invasive spine surgery, and neurosurgical oncology.
Dr. Wilson enjoys physical fitness, creative writing and film. He is married to his college sweetheart; they have an infant son.
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