F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Yale University, and Director of the Clinical and Translational Research Accelerator (CTRA), a multi-disciplinary group of clinical researchers who conduct human subjects research with a particular focus on leveraging data streams to increase study efficiency.
His research lies at the intersection of digital health and implementation science. He is internationally renowned as an expert in Clinical Decision Support (CDS) – automated systems, often but not necessarily driven by machine-learning approaches, that seek to augment clinical care by aiding healthcare practitioners in the complex task of caring for patients. This work is of high clinical impact; his studies have been selected for late-breaking clinical trial designation at the American Society of Nephrology Annual Meeting (CDS for Acute Kidney Injury), The European Society of Cardiology Annual Meeting (CDS for inpatients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction) and the American College of Cardiology Annual Meeting (CDS for outpatients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction). These studies have been published in high impact journals including the BMJ, the Lancet, Nature Communications, and JAMA Cardiology, among others.
Dr. Wilson is also well-known for his efforts in the communicating medical science to the public. At the largest scale, he is internationally-renowned for his Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) developed for Yale on the Coursera platform entitled “Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend is Wrong” (https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-research). The course, which is designed to teach lay people how to read a medical research paper, has been taken by over 80,000 people around the world. In a related area, he recently published a book entitled “How Medicine Works and When It Doesn’t”, designed to help lay-people understand what medical science is trustworthy and what isn’t. It has received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
