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Office of the Chancellor

M. Roy Wilson, MD, MS
Chancellor

Dr. Wilson took the helm of Colorado's premier urban research university July 1, 2006. He came from the four-campus Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, where he had served as president since 2003.

As chancellor of the University of Colorado Denver, Dr. Wilson oversees three campuses; downtown Denver, Ninth Ave. and Colorado Blvd., and Anschutz Medical Campus, with combined totals of more than 28,000 students and 8,000 employees, including more than 5,000 faculty teaching graduate and undergraduate programs in 12 schools.

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 Sciences. 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.