Professional Conferences, Meetings, and Seminars, (1969-1981)

As a popular speaker and valued expert in the medical profession, Dr. Wilson was sought after by many organizations to lead, speak, or participate in meetings and conferences across the country. This series contains meeting agendas, correspondence, itineraries, and other background materials produced as a result of this extensive travel. The records are arranged in chronological order by the day, month, and year of the event.

Significant or recurring organizations represented in this series include the National Advisory Council for Regional Medical Programs, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Board of Family Practice, Association of American Medical Colleges, National Association for Mental Health, Appalachian Regional Hospitals, Association for Academic Health Centers, Annual Congress on Medical Education, American Medical Association, Centers for Disease Control, and various Congressional subcommittees.

Dr. Wilson's position as HSMHA's director, his role as a medical school administrator, and expertise in the development of regional medical programs took him to a diverse cross-section of communities throughout the country. A sample of these communities include the West Side Community Conference in New York City, Metropolitan Denver Foundation for Medical Care, Genessee Region Health Planning Council, Seattle Indian Health Board, West Tennessee Hospital Council, National Conference of Black Churchmen, North Carolina Public Health Association, Eastern Virginia Medical Center, Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, Mid-West Health Conference, Tennessee Academy of Family Physicians, Staten Island Hospital, and Lower Rio Grande Valley Health Conference. Dr. Wilson's leading role in committee meetings of the American Medical Association's Council on Medical Education and chairmanship of its committee on Emergency Medicine provide insightful and evaluative data on the status of U.S. medical education in the 1970s. Additionally, during Dr. Wilson's tenure as Director of HSMHA, he participated in regularly scheduled HSMHA regional meetings and his responsibility for regional medical centers took him to a number of local meetings of regional medical programs.

Other interesting or notable conferences in which Dr. Wilson participated include a Health Services Panel at Harvard School of Public Health in 1972; a Conference on Education of the Physician in Emergency Medical Care in 1973; the Second National Congress on Health Manpower sponsored in 1974 by the AMA; National conference on Rural Health in 1975; and a Southern Newspaper Publishers Association's Seminar titled "Paying for Medical Care" held in 1976. Substantive and valuable materials gathered by Dr. Wilson regarding any meetings that were subsequently canceled were kept despite the meeting's cancellation.

Restricted records in this series include accreditation reviews of medical institutions and medical staff evaluations.