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Jason W. Wilson, MD, PhD, CPE, FACEP is Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine.
At Tampa General Hospital (TGH), he is Chief of Emergency Medicine and Vice President and Academic Co-Chief of the Emergency Services Institute. His leadership work spans emergency care delivery and coordination across the TGH academic health system. Dr. Wilson is board certified in Emergency Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine.
He earned his PhD in Anthropology at USF in December 2023 and holds an affiliate faculty appointment in the USF Department of Anthropology. His research applies anthropological theory and methods to the development of patient care pathways, including work in substance use disorders, HIV and hepatitis C, sepsis, traumatic brain injury, and anticoagulation and bleeding management.
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Jason Wilson is an academic healthcare leader, emergency physician, and medical anthropologist whose work focuses on patient-centered care that addresses both clinical needs and the structural and cultural forces that shape health inequities.
Dr. Wilson led the transition of USF emergency medicine from a division within Internal Medicine to an independent department in 2024. He became Chief of the USF Division of Emergency Medicine in December 2022 and Founding Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine in July 2024. He was promoted to Professor in September 2024.
At Tampa General Hospital, he became Chief of Emergency Medicine in December 2023. Working with hospital and department leadership, he helped develop an emergency medicine service line with governance, mission, vision, and strategy across the academic health system. In October 2025, he became Vice President and Academic Co-Chief of the Emergency Services Institute.
His approach to clinically applied anthropology places patient perspectives and anthropological methods within clinical care. It considers how emergency departments can respond to social determinants of health by developing new care pathways and incorporating anthropologists into clinical teams.
His clinical and scholarly work has included syndemic interventions that address interacting health and social problems; anticoagulant reversal and bleeding pathways; care for patients with sickle cell disease; HIV and hepatitis C screening and linkage; harm reduction; and treatment and follow-up for opioid and other substance use disorders. His current research also includes remote blood pressure monitoring and pharmacist-led telehealth after emergency department discharge, mobile and telemedicine buprenorphine, and clinical diagnostic biomarkers.
Dr. Wilson contributes to emergency department operations and patient flow at Tampa General Hospital while continuing to practice clinical emergency medicine. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he participated in hospital and community response efforts and provided public education through television, radio, and online media.
His research and academic work have received support from public and industry sources. He has presented at international, national, state, and regional conferences and has authored peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and Clinical Anthropology 2.0: Improving Medical Education and Patient Experience, co-authored with Roberta D. Baer.
Dr. Wilson coordinated emergency medicine coverage of local NFL games from 2015 to 2023 and served as a team emergency medicine physician for the Tampa Bay Lightning from 2014 to 2023. He also serves on academic and community boards, conducts peer review for medical journals, and teaches and mentors residents, medical students, premedical students, and anthropology students.
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September 11, 2024
April 24, 2024 Jason Wilson, MD, PhD is now the incoming inaugural Chair of the newly created University of South Florida Department of Emergency Medicine at the Morsani College of Medicine
April 19, 2024 Jason Wilson has received the USF Department of Anthropology Friends of Anthropology Award
April 9, 2024. Dr. Wilson presented the syndemic model for HIV, HCV, Opioid Use Disorder to the CDC Director of National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) and the CHAC panel at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.
February 2, 2024. Dr. Wilson has launched the ED Bridge Clinic for HCV and Opioid Use Disorder Co-located care
October 19, 2023: Dr. Wilson successfully defended his PhD in Anthropology at the University of South Florida.
November 30, 2023. New Publication! Exploring Lived Experiences of Gunshot Wound Survivors A key to Ethnographically Informed Public Health Interventions for Curbing Firearm Violence.
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December 1, 2022: Jason W. Wilson, MD was named Division Chief of Emergency Medicine
Jason W. Wilson, MD, PhD earned his PhD in anthropology at the University of South Florida in 2023, where he is an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Anthropology. His dissertation considers assemblage formation in clinical spaces and the expansion of syndemic models to co-located treatment of opioid use disorder and HCV.
January 2022: Jason W. Wilson published his first book, Clinical Anthropology 2.0: Improving Medical Education and Patient Experience with co-author Roberta Baer, PhD. Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield.
January 2021: Dr. Wilson was appointed to the inaugural leadership team of the new USF Center for Justice Research and Policy.
Explode. Sulynn Hago
Clinically Applied Anthropology: Medical Anthropologists in Biomedical Systems.
Rays Player hit by Foul Ball
Clinical Anthropology SfAA 2024
sfaa wilson med ed 2024
IDEA Exchange
TGH CFBHN IDEA EXCHANGE OCTOBER 2023
ACEP EMRA Sim Wars 2023 Round 1 University of South Florida Emergency Medicine
Dr. Jason Wilson and Dr. Peter Chang. TGH. Senate Committee on Health Policy 01/17/23
