Frank Wilson, MD

Frank Wilson is a neurologist/writer who resides in Portland, Oregon. Now retired from active clinical practice, he was a founder of the Health Program for Performing Artists at the University of California San Francisco and its medical director from 1996-2000. He was Clinical Professor of Neurology at Stanford University School of Medicine until 2003. He has long been interested in the neurology of skilled hand movement, and is a widely respected authority on the neurology of acquired hand disorders. He is the author of two monographs on the hand, the second of which was nominated in 1998 by Pantheon Books, the publisher, for a Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction (The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture; Pantheon Books). Long interested in arts education, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts in May, 2012, by the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt). Awarded a Goldman Sachs Fellowship in 2013 to consult with Lemelson Center at the National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institute in Washington) on visitor experience. Contributing Preface to new book by Rhode Island School of Design on curriculum.