For immediate release: February 16, 2007
Contact: Emily Wofford Cobb
Public Relations Manager
775-784-6006
ewofford@unr.edu
RENO, Nev.—Nevin Wilson, M.D., a 1982 graduate of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, will be joining his alma mater as a full professor and chair for the department of pediatrics in Reno beginning in April. Wilson brings a rare specialty in pediatric allergy and immunology to the state.
Wilson returns to Reno from Morgantown, West Virginia where he has served as vice chair for clinical affairs at West Virginia University School of Medicine for the past five years. In addition to his vice chairmanship, Wilson was chief of the school’s section of pediatric allergy and immunology and program director for the Allergy Immunology Training Program. He also served as medical director for the school’s pediatric specialty clinics. He originally joined West Virginia University School of Medicine in 1992 as an assistant professor of pediatrics and was later promoted to associate professor of pediatrics in 1995.
“It is wonderful to have an alum return to the school as a faculty member,” notes Catherine Goring, M.D., president of the school’s northern clinical practice and chair of the internal medicine department. “Our community will benefit from his expertise in pediatric allergy and immunology. Our faculty and students are eager for him to take the helm of our pediatric department.”
Wilson boasts an impressive background in research and has published numerous reviews, publications and books. He is board certified by the American Board of Allergy and Immunology, the American Board of Pediatrics, and the National Board of Medical Examiners. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology.
Prior to joining the West Virginia University School of Medicine, Wilson served as an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine from 1988 to 1992 where he also held clinical appointments at the University of California San Diego Medical Center and San Diego’s Children’s Hospital. From 1986 to 1988, Wilson was a fellow in pediatric immunology and allergy at UCSD where he also completed his residency training from 1982 to 1986. In his final year of residency training, Wilson served as chief resident of pediatrics.
Wilson, who is a Las Vegas native, earned his M.D. from the University of Nevada School of Medicine in 1982. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been meeting statewide healthcare, educational, and clinical needs since 1969. The School of Medicine encompasses 16 clinical medical education departments, including Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Internal Medicine, Surgery, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, as well as ten nationally-recognized departments within basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. As the largest multi-specialty healthcare focus within the state, the School of Medicine employs more than 185 doctors who both teach and practice medicine throughout Nevada. The school’s statewide faculty physician practice group has a combined 25 different medical specialties with seven physician practice offices located in the Reno-Sparks area and five physician offices located in Las Vegas.
The University of Nevada School of Medicine utilizes a best-practice approach to medicine and is committed to addressing the health needs of Nevada now and in the future. For more information, please visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.
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