Stephen Wilson

Dr. Stephen Wilson is the chief medical officer (CMO) of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital-San Francisco. He also serves as vice president of physician network development for the community provider network of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. In these roles, he has broad oversight of inpatient and outpatient faculty practices at the Mission Bay and Mount Zion campuses in San Francisco, as well as of faculty and community partner practices across Northern California. He is a pediatric hospitalist pain medicine specialist and a professor of pediatrics.

First as associate CMO and then as CMO, Wilson established the inpatient and outpatient Access Centers, which facilitate the safe, rapid transport of pediatric patients referred to UCSF from other medical institutions in Northern California, and the streamlined acceptance of patients referred to our pediatric specialists. He also established the quality improvement and patient safety programs for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital-San Francisco, the Integrated Pediatric Pain & Palliative Care service, and a new pediatric emergency department at the Parnassus campus, in preparation for its move to the new children's hospital at Mission Bay.

In his current development role, Wilson led the establishment of a Northern California physician network encompassing six community hospitals and more than 200 pediatricians. This collaboration with the pediatric specialists of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals facilitates the delivery of the highest-quality care throughout the region. He serves on the board of directors for UCSF Benioff Children's Physicians, a multispecialty Bay Area medical foundation.

Wilson earned his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and his medical degree and a doctorate in immunology at Harvard Medical School. He completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in medical education at UCSF.

Following his training, Wilson served on the UCSF community faculty at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco and Valley Children's Healthcare in Fresno, where he founded pediatric hospitalist programs and established pediatric training sites for UCSF. In 2001, he joined the UCSF faculty at the main campus, where he co-founded the pediatric hospitalist program and established the Division of Hospital Medicine within the UCSF Department of Pediatrics.