David C. Wilson, M.D.

Dr. Wilson was born in Chattanooga, Tenn. and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1912 and received his medical degree there in 1919. He served in the Army medical corps in World War I and from 1921 to 1926, he was on the staff of the Clifton Springs Sanitarium in New York, where he formed a Department of Neurology and Psychiatry.

In 1929, he becomes the first Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry and leads the neurological services at University of Virginia from the 1930s and 40s where he introduced EEG to Virginia in 1947. Dr. Wilson was the Speaker of the Assembly from 1957-1958 and Vice President of the American Psychiatric Association from 1958-1959.