Christina Wilson, MD, PhD
University of Florida
Dr. Christina Wilson, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida. She serves as the Neurology Residency Program Director, Vascular Neurology Fellowship Director, and Associate Chair of Education for the Department of Neurology. She is also the chief of the vascular neurology division and a key member of the only comprehensive stroke program in north-central Florida. Dr. Wilson graduated from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. She completed her doctorate degree in pharmacology in 2001 at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; her research focused on the cell biology of presenilin proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease, for which she was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Wilson completed her medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania and was an intern in internal medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital, where she was elected Intern of the Year. She then completed her residency in neurology in 2012 at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a neurovascular fellow at the same institution from 2012-2013. Dr. Wilson joined the faculty of the UF Department of Neurology in 2013. Dr. Wilson’s main interests lie in neurology graduate medical education and clinical stroke management. She currently provides stroke care for hospitalized patients and supervises resident continuity clinic. Dr. Wilson also handles didactic training of stroke mechanisms of disease and mentors stroke fellows, medical students and residents. She is the local primary investigator for several national clinical stroke trials and regularly educates the community and EMS about stroke via outreach events. She served for 7 years as a member of the UF Internal Program Review Committee, which is tasked with annually reviewing and offering concrete suggestions for programmatic improvement to the 80+ ACGME-accredited training programs affiliated with the University of Florida. She was honored as a UF College of Medicine Exemplary Teacher for five consecutive years, and received the AB Baker Teacher Recognition Award from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) in 2017 and the AAN Residency-Fellowship Program Director Recognition Award in 2023. She has served as a mentor for several neurology program directors through the AAN’s Director Mentorship Leadership Program.