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Steven E. Wilson, MD (born December 28, 1951) is an American ophthalmologist, scientist and author. Wilson was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma but was raised from the age of four by his parents Gilford E. Wilson and Margie F. Wilson in Whittier, California. He attended high school at California High School in Whittier and his first two years of college at Rio Hondo College, also in Whittier. Wilson received his B.A. in Biology at California State University in Fullerton in 1974 and his M.S. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at University of California Irvine in 1977. From 1974 to 1977, he was an Instructor of biology and chemistry at Rio Hondo College in Whittier. He attended medical school at University of California San Diego and received his M.D. degree in 1984. After an internship in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, 1984-1985, he completed his residency in ophthalmology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota (1985-1988). Wilson completed a fellowship in Cornea and refractive surgery and external eye disease at the LSU Eye Center (in New Orleans under the direction of Herbert E. Kaufman, MD, Marguerite McDonald, MD and Stephen D. Klyce, PhD and then was assistant/associate professor in ophthalmology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas (1990-1995). From 1995 to 1998, Wilson was the Medical Director of Refractive Surgery and Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Wilson became Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1998 and was named Grace E. Hill Endowed Chair in Vision Research. He served as Chair until 2003, when he returned to the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH to be Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Corneal Research and staff refractive and corneal surgeon, and Director of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery fellowship.

Dr. Wilson is world-renowned as a refractive and corneal surgeon and medical cornea and external disease specialist at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH. His cell and molecular biology research related to corneal wound healing and corneal physiology has been funded by NIH since 1994. He has received numerous awards, including being named a Research to Prevent Blindness William and Mary Greve International Research Scholar (1992–1994), receiving a Senior Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (2004), receiving a Lifetime Presidential Award from the International Society for Refractive Surgery-American Academy of Ophthalmology (ISRS-AAO) (2009) and the Barraquer Award and Lecture, the highest achievement in refractive surgery for career contributions to the field, from ISRS-AAO (2020). Dr. Wilson has authored over 250 medical and scientific articles and book chapters on clinical and basic science topics related to refractive surgery and the cornea.

Wilson has also authored four novels, including the Stone Waverly Trilogy ("Winter in Kandahar" (2003), Benjamin Franklin Award Finalist in 2004 in the category Best New Voice in Fiction), "Ascent from Darkness" (2007), and "The Benghazi Affair" (2018, Benjamin Franklin Award Audiobook of the Year, 2019). He also authored the novel "The Ghosts of Anatolia-An Epic Journey to Forgiveness" (2010) which was Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Gold Award in Fiction (multicultural category) in 2010. He also published a memoir "The Making, Breaking, and Renewal of a Surgeon Scientist: A Personal Perspective of the Physician Crisis in America" in 2019. Dr. Wilson's books are available on Amazon.com and several are audiobooks on Audible.com and iTunes.

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