Dorian Wilson
The National Police Defense Foundation is honored to recognize Dr. Dorian Wilson with the “Distinguished Member Award” in recognition of his long-term membership and financial support to many of our law enforcement and child safety initiatives such as the “Operation Kids” and “Safe Cop” programs.
- Now Professor of Surgery, Dr. Wilson joined the faculty of New Jersey Medical School’s Department of Surgery in 1988 as oneof the founding members of the Division of Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery. He was an integral part of the team that performed the first liver transplant in the state of New Jersey and has since steadily contributed to the growth of the specialty of liver transplantation on a local and national level.
His faculty appointment at New Jersey Medical School was punctuated by service in the U.S. Air Force (commissioned Major), where he received the meritorious service medal.
- Wilson served at the Wilford Hall United States Air Force Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas as an attending physician where he performed liver, kidney and pancreas transplants until he returned to New Jersey Medical School in 1996.
- Upon his return, he performed renal transplants at St. Barnabas Medical Center, served as Medical Director of the N.J. Organ and Tissue Sharing Network, and served as an attending in the Emergency/Trauma division before rejoining the liver transplant team at New Jersey Medical School in 1999. In 2006,
- Wilson was selected as Program Director for the General Surgery Residency Program Director and served in that capacity until 2013.