Thomas Wilson, Ph.D., DrPH Epidemiologist Trajectory® Healthcare

Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH is a nationally known epidemiologist specializing in the evaluation of programs and products designed to understand and/or impact defined populations. These include disease management, case management, payment-for-performance programs, predictive algorithms, and electronic medical record use.

Wilson is the principal of Trajectory® Healthcare, LLC--a strategic epidemiologic consultancy firm. The firm has provided epidemiologic services to the Medicare program, State Medicaid Agencies, health plans, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, private foundations, care management vendors, and employer groups. He is currently the co-chair of the Patient Safety and Quality Committee of the Disease Management Association of America (DMAA), and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Health and Productivity.

His former positions include the Corporate Epidemiologist at Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, faculty research positions at Columbia University and UC Berkeley, an NIH post-doctoral fellowship position in cardiovascular disease, and a Fulbright award lectureship. Publications range from contributor (and associate editor) to the encyclopedic Cambridge World History of Human Disease to commissioned works on disease management evaluation from both the DMAA and the AcademyHealth's State Coverage Initiatives, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Other writings have appeared in the American Journal of Hypertension, American Journal of Managed Care, Annals of Internal Medicine, Barron's Weekly, Cambridge University Press, Circulation, Disease Management, Duke University Press, Employee Benefit News, Health Affairs, Joint Commission Journal of Quality and Safety, Journal of the American Geriatric Society, Lancet, Statistics in Medicine, Journal of Health and Productivity, and others. He is also a frequent speaker at national meetings on the uses of evaluation for care management program improvement and program impact.