Daniel R. Wilson Elected To World Psychiatric Association Committee

Daniel R. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., was named chairman of the World Psychiatric Association Psychotherapy Committee at the WPA Congress held in November in Florence, Italy. Dr. Wilson is professor & chair of psychiatry and professor of anthropology in the School of Medicine at Creighton University Medical Center.

As chairman, Dr. Wilson will lead WPA efforts to promote best practices in psychotherapy clinical care, education and research working with constituent national associations and medical schools worldwide.

“I am gratified to have been chosen by international colleagues to help with such important work in an increasingly complicated world,” said Dr. Wilson. “Since its founding in 1961, the WPA has brought together psychiatrists of different national and cultural origins, different schools of thought and various areas of interest and of diverging ideological proclivities united in the pursuit of increased knowledge in the field and of greater capacity for the care of mental patients,” he said.

Earlier this year, Dr. Wilson received the Nancy C.A. Roeske, M.D. Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Education by the American Psychiatric Association. He was also named to Nebraska Governor Mike Johanns’ task force on behavioral health.

“We are very pleased that Dr. Wilson has been selected to this important international position,” said Cam E. Enarson, M.D., M.B.A., dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for Health Sciences at Creighton University Medical Center. “The World Psychiatry Association will benefit from Dr. Wilson’s skills and experience in mental health policy issues and will be able to share with his Creighton colleagues, students and patients what he learns from his peers around the world,” said Dr. Enarson.