Ira B. Wilson, MD, MSc Outcomes and Biostatistics Core Director
Mailing Address:	New England Medical Center Department of Medicine 750 Washington Street Boston, MA 02111
Telephone:	(617) 636-8672
Email:	Iwilson@tufts-nemc.org

Dr. Ira Wilson is an Associate Professor in the Division of Clinical Care Research and the Department of Medicine at New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the recipient of two career development awards, a Picker-Commonwealth Scholars Award, and is a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Faculty Scholars Award. Dr. Wilson's primary research interests are in structural characteristics of health care delivery systems, and how those structural characteristics affect physician-patient interactions, patients' health outcomes, and quality of care. He is currently studying these issues in several patient populations with chronic illnesses including HIV disease, depression, and the elderly. Dr. Wilson participated in a project funded by Robert Wood Johnson (Paul D. Cleary, PI) to study the characteristics of providers and care sites where patients in the HIV Costs and Services Utilization Study (HCSUS) receive their care. As part of this effort the team successfully surveyed 400 providers and 200 sites of care throughout the continental United States. He also directed the outcomes assessment piece of a national project (Paul D. Cleary, PI) that is examining the impact of a “breakthrough series” to improve quality of care in Ryan White Title III funded primary care sites. Dr. Wilson is also PI of a 4-year $1.9 million study “Understanding and Improving Adherence in HIV Disease” that was recently funded by NIDA (4/02-3/06) that will test a novel physician-focused intervention. He is also Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Tufts-New England Medical Center General Clinical Research Center.