Consultant and Director St Luke’s Radiology Oxford Ltd
Clinical Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
Member of Congregation, University of Oxford
Student, Imperial College London
Son of a general practitioner and an anthropologist, David Wilson trained at King's College Hospital, London, and the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals. He was a pioneer in the development of diagnostic ultrasound for musculoskeletal disorders in the 1980s. Since 2012, he has developed ultrasound/MRI fusion imaging guidance for spinal procedures. He has 36 years of experience in vertebroplasty and has been the principal European investigator for multicentre randomised controlled trials on the treatment of insufficiency fractures.
As a founder and former President of the British Society of Skeletal Radiologists and former Medical Director of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust, he has wide clinical and research experience. He has 146 publications registered to Google Scholar, Citations 6841 (1778 since 2020), H index 36, i10 index 54.
He was President of the British Institute of Radiology (2014-2016). He is the Musculoskeletal Editor for Acta Radiologica Scandinavica.
He works three days a week preparing expert witness reports and continues in active clinical work the remainder of his time.
For the last five years, he has spent one day a week working with the Musculoskeletal Bone Research Laboratory at Imperial College London, where he is undertaking a research doctorate (MD res) studying silent vertebral compression fractures. He believes he is the only student at Imperial College who has an old person’s bus pass.
He plays the Viola in a string orchestra on Saturday mornings. As a former national and international medal holder, he coaches at City of Oxford Rowing Club.