Dr Stephanie Wilson
Stephanie R. Wilson, MD If you say “liver,” many people will respond “onions.” But if you say “liver imaging,” the medical community emphatically and quickly responds “Stephanie R. Wilson, MD!” Currently clinical professor in the Department of Radiology and Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, at the University of Calgary, this Canadian physician earned her medical degree with distinction from the University of Alberta, ultimately moving to Ontario to complete her radiology residency at Toronto General Hospital. Ontario became Dr Wilson’s primary home for 34 years, where she became a professor at the University of Toronto, as well as head of the Division of Ultrasound and then head of the Section of Ultrasound at Toronto General Hospital.
It was in Toronto where Dr Wilson began her focus on imaging, gastroenterology, and diagnosis of tumors of the liver—a focus for which she has become world renowned. A principal investigator or co–principal investigator for more than a dozen major grants concentrating primarily on liver tumors and ultrasound contrast agents, her research has resulted in more than 125 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 35 books and book chapters. The 2-volume reference book Diagnostic Ultrasound, for which she has been an author and coeditor, is now in its fourth edition and has served as a worldwide reference book for ultrasound professionals for decades. In addition, she has proffered more than 110 papers at meetings throughout Canada, the United States, Australia, and Europe and has presented 430 invited lectures across the globe.
It’s not surprising that this exceptional educator has received multiple honors, including the Wightman-Berris Academy Award for Individual Teaching Excellence, the Jean A. Vezina Award for Excellence and Innovation in Radiology from the Société Canadienne-Française de Radiologie, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound, the Colin R. Woolf Award for Excellence in Continuing Education Teaching, and the Joseph H. Holmes Pioneer Award from the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. However, what probably makes most teachers turn green with envy is the fact that she received annual Best Teacher awards from 1991–2006, as voted by the resident/fellow student faculty in the Body Imaging Section of the Department of Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto, an achievement very few professors could rival