EDUCATION:
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford
University School of Medicine, 1967-1969.

Ph.D., Stanford University, Physiological Psychology, 1968.

B.A., summa cum laude , University of Minnesota, Psychology and Zoology, 1963.


EMPLOYMENT:
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, 860 Bryant St., Palo Alto, California, 94301
1997-present: Senior Staff Scientist
1997-present: Chair, Department of Health Services Research

Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, California 94305
1991-present: Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Co-Director (with Thomas Raffin, M.D.), Stanford Lung Disease Research Center, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

American Institutes for Research, 1791 Arastradero Road (P.O. Box 1113), Palo Alto, California 94302
1987-1997: Senior Research Fellow

1979-1997: Director, Institute for Health Care Research

1979-1987: Principal Research Scientist

1977-1979: Senior Research Scientist

1973-1977: Research Scientist

1971-1973: Associate Research Scientist

1970-1971: Senior Research Associate


RECENT RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

1998-2002 Principal Investigator, Women with STDs: HIV Risk Reducation in an HMO (Psst!) , R01 HD/MH36572, NICHD/NIH

1997-2000: Co-investigator, Young Children with Asthma: Home-based Nurse Intervention, R01 NR04431, NINR/NIH

1997-1999: Co-investigator, Central California Asthma Project , grant, The California Endowment, Glaxo, Key Pharmaceuticals, Thomas J. Long Foundation, Fresno-Madera Pharmaceutical Assoc.

1996-1999: Principal Investigator, HIV Prevention among High Risk Latino Couples, 5R01 HD30639, Demography and Behavioral Sciences Branch/NICHD/NIH

1994-1999: Co-investigator, Peak Flow Monitoring in Older Adults with Asthma, R18 HL52598 Division of Lung Diseases/NHLBI/NIH

1996-1998: Co-investigator, Community-Based Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure Intervention with Children with Asthma, subcontract to Chronic Disease Branch/California Department of Health Services, grant, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/PHS

1993-1997: Principal Investigator, Development of Improved Selection Procedures for the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program, contract 240-94-0031, Bureau of Primary Health Care/HRSA

1991-1997: Internal Consultant, Stop-Smoking Treatment for Drug/Alcohol Abuse Inpatients , R01 DA07426, NIDA/ADAMHA

1993-1997: Principal Investigator, The Fresno Asthma Project, contract, National Asthma Education Program/NHLBI/NIH

1994-1996: Co-investigator, Condom Use Decision-Making by California Hispanic Women, R01 HD/NR30639, Demography and Behavioral Sciences Branch/NICHD/NIH

1990-1996: Co-investigator, Development of an Adaptive Coping Skills Program for Persons with Multiple Sclerosis , grants, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute and National Multiple Sclerosis Society

1988-1995: Principal Investigator, "Wee Wheezers": Asthma Management Education for Parents, R01 HL41819, Division of Lung Diseases/NHLBI/NIH

1991-1994: Co-investigator, Condom Use Decision-Making Among California Hispanic Men, R01 HD26243, Demography and Behavioral Sciences Branch/NICHD/NIH

1974-1991: Principal Investigator, Development of Specifications, Items and Test Forms for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) , contract, Association of American Medical Colleges

1981-82,89-91: Program Director, Minority High School Student Research Apprentice Program , S03 RR03028, Division of Research Resources/NIH

1979-83,87-91: Program Director, Biomedical Research Support Grant , S07 RR05615, Division of Research Resources/NIH

1988-1990: Principal Investigator, Evaluation of the National Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program , contract, Division of Medicine/Bureau of Health Professions/HRSA

1986-1990: Principal Investigator, Self-Management Education for Adults with Asthma , R01 HL34861, Division of Lung Diseases/NHLBI/NIH

1988-1990: Principal Investigator, Hispanic Behavioral Risk Factor Survey , contract, County of Monterey Health Department and Northern California Cancer Center

1988-1989: Principal Investigator, Evaluation of the Impact of MEDLINE , contract, National Library of Medicine/NIH

1986-1989: Principal Investigator, Evaluation of Four Asthma Self-Management Programs, R01 HL36019, Division of Lung Diseases/NHLBI/NIH

1987-1988: Principal Investigator, Critical Competencies of Anesthesiology Residents , grant, Biomedical Research Support Grant program/AIR

1983-1984: Principal Investigator, Factors Influencing the Career Development of Black Physicians , grant, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

1982-1983: Principal Investigator, Examination of 1980 Census Data on Health Occupations , contract, Office of Data Analysis and Management, Bureau of Health Professions/HRSA

1980-1982: Principal Investigator, Cognitive Skill Requirements of Physician-Patient Encounters , grant, American Society for Internal Medicine-SEREF

1980-1981: Principal Investigator, Synthesis of Research on Physicians' Career Choices: Comparative Study of Project TALENT and AAMC Longitudinal Studies , R03 HS04153, NCHSR/OASH

1980-1981: Principal Investigator, Development of Pilot National Health Service Corps Scholarship Award Personal Interview , contract, Bureau of Community Health Services/HSA

1980-1981: Co-Principal Investigator, Development of Self-Management Systems for Children with Asthma , contract (duration 1977-1981), Division of Lung Diseases/NHLBI/NIH

1978-1979: Principal Investigator, Career Development of the Project TALENT Physicians , R01 HS02626, National Center for Health Services Research/OASH

1977-1979: Principal Investigator, Study of Career Decisions of National Health Service Corps and Private Practice Physicians , contract, Division of Medicine, Bureau of Health Manpower/HRA


HONORS/AWARDS/PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

• Member, Working Group to Develop a Quality of Life Assessment Web Page, American Thoracic Society, Behavioral Science Assembly, 1996-present.


• Chair, ALA Working Group on Standards for Asthma Education, 1996-1997


• Member, Asthma Technical Advisory Group, American Lung Association of California, 1996-present


• Vice-Chair, ALA Strategic Planning Task Force on Asthma, 1995-96


• Member, Board of Directors, American Thoracic Society (Chair, Behavioral Science Assembly), 1994-96


• ATS Board representative to Advisory Council, American Lung Association, 1994-96


• Member, ATS 1994 International Meeting Program Committee


• Member, Long Range Planning Committee, Behavioral Science Assembly/ATS, 1993-97


• Member, Executive Committee, NHLBI Working Group on Asthma in the Elderly, 1992-1995


• Member, Measurement Subcommittee, Clinical Skills Evaluation Project, National Board of Medical Examiners, 1989-1994


• Reviewer, Special (Ad Hoc) Review Panels, NHLBI Demonstration-Education, DECA clinical trials, and AHCPR grant applications, 1983-present


• Member, Pulmonary Diseases Advisory Committee (PDAC), Division of Lung Diseases, National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute, NIH, 1989-1993


• Member, NHLBI PDAC Asthma and Occupational Lung Disease Long Range Research Planning Subcommittees, 1991-1992; PDAC Research Training Subcommittee, 1992


• Visiting Scientist, Soviet Ministry of Health, U.S.-U.S.S.R Agreement in the Cardiopulmonary Area (Area 8), November, 1990; July, 1992.


• Member, Ad Hoc Review Boards, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine , Chest, Health Education and Behavior (formerly Health Education Quarterly) , Journal of Patient Education and Counseling , Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Journal of Pediatric Psychology , Journal of the American Medical Association, Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice , 1988-present


• Participant, NHLBI-AAAI Planning Workshop for the National Asthma Education Program, 1988


• Member, Joint AAAI, ATS, NHLBI, NIAID Task Force on Asthma Mortality, Panel on Asthma Education, 1986


• Member, NCME Committee on Legislative Awareness, 1986-1989


• Member, Nominating Committee, Award for Distinguished Contribution to Educational Research, AERA, 1986-1988


• Member, NIAID-NHLBI (DLD) Steering Committee on Evaluation of Self-Management Education Programs for Asthmatic Children, 1982


• Chair, Nominating Committee, Division I-AERA, 1986


• Chair, Task Force on Future Research in the Professions, Division I-AERA, 1987-1988


• Chair, Affirmative Action Committee, Division I-AERA, 1982-84


• Member, Publication Committee, Division I-AERA, 1985-86


• NIH Biobehavioral Training Grant Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1967-69


• NSF Scholarship for Graduate Study, 1963-67


• Woodrow Wilson Honorary Fellow, 1963


• All-College Scholar, College of Science, Literature and the Arts, University of Minnesota, 1963


• Psi Chi, 1963


• Phi Beta Kappa, 1962

AFFILIATIONS:

American Thoracic Society
American Psychological Association
American Public Health Association
Association for Health Services Research
Society of Behavioral Medicine
Society for Clinical Trials


JOURNAL ARTICLES and BOOKS:

Wilson SR. Individual Versus Group Education: Is One Better? Patient Education and Counseling 1997; 32:S67-75.

Wilson SR, Scamagas P, Grado J, Norgaard L, Starr NJ, Eaton S, Pomaville K. The Fresno Asthma Project: A model intervention to control asthma in inner-city and low-income communities. Health Education and Behavior 1998; 25:79-98.

Anderson LE, Wilson SR. The Critical Incident Technique. 1997 In: Whetzel DL and Wheaton GR, eds. Applied Measurement Methods in Industrial Psychology , Palo Alto, CA: Davies-Black Publishing, 89-112.

Hornberger JC, Itakura H, Wilson SR. Physician perception of methods to bridge language barriers in health care. Public Health Reports 1997; 112(5):410-17.

Lu BW, Wilson SR, Latini D, Dayton D. SAS Proc Mixed to fit growth curve models: application to a longitudinal group randomization study. In Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Western Users of SAS⁸ Software (WUSS) Conference : 1996, San Francisco: WUSS, 337-42.

Nguyen B, German D, Wilson SR. Patient?s perception compared with objective ratings of asthma severity. Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology 1996;77:209-15.

Wilson SR, Latini DM, Starr-Schneidkraut N, Fish L, Loes L, Page A, Kubic P. Education of parents of infants and very young children with asthma: a developmental evaluation of the Wee Wheezers program. Journal of Asthma 1996; 33:239-54.

Patterson GM, Wilson S, Whang JL, Harvey J, Agaki K, Patel H, Theodore J. Physiologic definitions of obliterative bronchiolitis in heart-lung and double lung transplantation: a comparison of the FEF_25-75 and FEV₁. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 1996;15:175-81.

Fish L, Wilson SR, Austin DM, Starr-Schneidkraut NJ. An education program for parents of children with asthma: differences in attendance between smoking and nonsmoking parents. American Journal of Public Health 1996; 86:246-8.

Li D, German D, Lulla S, Thomas R, Wilson SR. Prospective study of hospitalization for asthma: a preliminary risk factor model. American Journal Respiratory and Critical Care Med icine 1995; 151: 647-655.

Fowkes VK, Wilson SR. Effectiveness of educational strategies preparing physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and certified nurse-midwives for underserved areas. Public Health Reports 1994; 109:673-82.

Wilson SR, Starr-Schneidkraut N. State of the art overview of asthma education. Chest 1994; 106:197S-205S.

Bailey WC, Wilson SR, Weiss KB, Windsor RA, Wolle JM. Measures for use in asthma clinical research: Overview of the NIH workshop. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 1994; 149:S1-8.

Lindberg, DAB, Siegel, ER, Rapp, BA, Wallingford, KT, Wilson, SR Use of MEDLINE by physicians for clinical problem-solving. Journal of the American Medical Association 1993; 269:3124-9.

Forrest KA, Austin DM, Valdez MI, Fuentes EG, Wilson SR. Norms and beliefs about condom use among Mexican-American men in California. Family Planning Perspectives 1993; 25:111-7.

Wilson SR, Scamagas P, German DF, Hughes GW, Lulla S, Coss S, Chardon L, Thomas RG, Starr-Schneidkraut N, Stancavage FB, Arsham GM. A controlled trial of two forms of self-management education for adults with asthma. American Journal of Medicine 1993; 94:564-76.

Wilson SR. Patient and physician behavior models related to asthma care. Medical Care 1993; 31:MS49-60.

Wilson SR, Mitchell JH, Rolnick S, Fish L. Effective and ineffective management behaviors of parents of infants and young children with asthma. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 1993; 18:63-81.

Fowkes V, Campeau P, Wilson SR. The National Area Health Education Centers Program: Its evolution and effects over two decades. Academic Medicine 1991; 66:211-220.

Wilson SR, Mellins RB. Summary of workshop discussion (Workshop on Asthma Self-Management): Report of the Asthma Mortality Task Force Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 1987; 80(3,Pt 2):487-490.

Wilson SR, Scamagas P, Arsham GM, Chardon L, Coss S, German DF, Hughes GW. An evaluation of approaches to asthma self-management education for adults: The AIR/Kaiser-Permanente Study. Health Education Quarterly 1987; 14:333-343.

Wilson SR. Factors influencing cognitive difficulty of clinical problems in general internal medicine practice. Journal of Medical Education 1986; 61:59-61.

McNabb W, Wilson SR, Jacobs AM. Critical self-management competencies for children with asthma. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 1986; 11:103-117.

Wilson SR, McNabb W. The role of patient education in the management of childhood asthma. Preventive Medicine 1985; 14:670-687.

McNabb W, Wilson SR, Hughes G, Scamagas P. Self-management education of children with asthma: AIR WISE. American Journal of Public Health 1985; 75:1219-1220.

Wilson SR, Stancavage F, Levine R. Determinants of the size and composition of the pool of black applicants to medical school. In Research in Medical Education: 1985 (Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference). Washington, DC: Association of American Medical Colleges, 193-8.

Wilson SR. Factors underlying the cognitive difficulty of patient care episodes. In Research in Medical Education: 1984 (Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference). Washington, DC: Association of American Medical Colleges, 158-63.

Wilson SR. Response: Methodologic problems in the evaluation of self-management programs. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 1983; 72(5, Part 2):590-595.

Wilson SR. Physician location history as a determinant of regional practice location. In Research in Medical Education: 1982 (Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference). Washington, DC: Association of American Medical Colleges.

Wilson SR, Stancavage FB, Wise LL. A comparative study of physicians from two decades. In Research in Medical Education: 1981 (Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference). Washington, DC: Association of American Medical Colleges.

Wilson SR, Wise LL, Stancavage FB. Recruitment and selection of physicians for primary care and rural practice -- Results from the Project TALENT Longitudinal Study. In Research in Medical Education: 1980 (Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference). Washington, DC: Association of American Medical Colleges.

Wilson SR. What's new at the American Institutes for Research: A visit to a professions education research office. Professions Education Researcher 1979; 1,14.

Pribram KH, Reitz S, McNeil M, Spevack AA. The effect of amygdalectomy on orienting and classical conditioning in monkeys. Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science 1979; 14:203-217.

Reitz S, Gerbrandt LK. Pre- and posttrial temporal lobe seizures in monkeys and memory consolidation. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 1971; 74:179-184.

Reitz S, Pribram KH. Some subcortical connections of the inferotemporal gyrus in monkeys. Experimental Neurology 1969; 25:632-645.

Reitz S. The effects of serial disconnection of striate and temporal cortex on visual discrimination performance in monkeys. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 1969; 68:139-146.

Pribram KH, Spinelli DN, Reitz S. The effects of radical disconnexion of occipital and temporal cortex on visual behavior of monkeys. Brain 1969; 92:301-312.

Pribram KH, Blehert (Reitz) S, Spinelli DN. The effects on visual discrimination of crosshatching and undercutting the inferotemporal cortex of monkeys. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 1966; 62:358-364.

Blehert (Reitz) S. Pattern discrimination learning with Rhesus monkeys. Psychological Reports 1966; 9:311-324.


ABSTRACTS:

Frazier EA, Vollmer WM, Wilson SR, Hayward AD, Buist AS. Characteristics of older asthmatics with moderate-severe disease. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 1997; 155(4,Suppl):A286.

Wilson SR, Starr NJ, Lu BW, Fish L. Understanding when changes in parental management following education affect asthma status of children under 7 years of age. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 1997; 155(4,Suppl):A728.

Wilson SR, "The Fresno Asthma Project:" A model community-wide intervention for controlling asthma in low income and high risk populations. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 1997; 155(4,Suppl):A70.

Starr, NJ, Likosky, WH, Hayes, BW, Casey, D, Wilson SR, Javerbaum J. Improved quality of life (QOL) outcomes in MS patients after participation in the "Coping with MS Effectively" program. Neurology , 1996; 46(2, Suppl): S63.004.

Likosky, WH, Starr-Schneidkraut, NJ, Wilson, SR, Javerbaum, JR. Impact of the "Coping with MS Effectively" program on adaptive coping in MS patients. Neurology , 1995; 45(4, Suppl): A334.

Likosky WH, Starr-Schneidkraut NJ, Wilson SR. "Coping with MS Effectively:" A proactive psychosocial intervention for patients with multiple sclerosis. Archives of Neurology 1994: April.

Wilson SR, Starr-Schneidkraut NJ, Austin DM, Fish L, Loes LA, Page A. Early intervention with parents of very young children with asthma reduces nocturnal symptoms and improves overall control. American Review of Respiratory Disease , 1993; 147(4,Suppl):A774.

Starr-Schneidkraut N, Wilson SR, Likosky W, Palmer L. Critical coping skills for adults with multiple sclerosis. Annals of Behavioral Medicine 1993; 15:S126.

Nguyen B, German D, Wilson SR. Patients' perception versus objective ratings of asthma severity. Annals of Allergy, 1993; 70:46.

Li D, German D, Lulla S, Wilson SR. Risk factors for hospitalization in adults with asthma. American Review of Respiratory Disease 1992; 145(4,Suppl):A690.

Canary C, Hill L, Anderson S, Schreiner N, German D, Wilson SR. Patients can learn and retain the ability to correctly use metered-dose inhalers. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 1992; 88(1,part 2):363.

Wilson SR, Scamagas P, German D, Hughes G, Lulla S, Starr-Schneidkraut N. Significantly reduced health care utilization in extended follow-up of adults receiving asthma education. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 1992; 88(1,part 2):188.

Fish L, Wilson SR, Starr-Schneidkraut N, Loes L, Page A. An asthma education program for parents of children under seven, using video technology. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 1992; 88(1,part 2):188.

Fish L, Wilson SR, Rolnick C. Pediatric asthma education affects families and physicians. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 1991; 87(1,part 2):308.

Wilson SR, Fish L, Page A, Rolnick C. Evaluation of four pediatric asthma self-management programs. American Review of Respiratory Disease 1990; 141(4,Suppl):A495.

Wilson SR, Scamagas P, German D, Hughes G, Stancavage F. Education for collaborative management of asthma: evaluation of 3 instructional formats. American Review of Respiratory Disease 1990; 141(4,Suppl):A496.

Scamagas P, German D, Hughes G, Coss S, Stancavage F, Wilson SR. Impact of 3 models of asthma education for adults. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 1990; 85(1,part 2):286.

Scamagas P, Coss S, German D, Hughes G, Chardon L, Wilson SR. Patient screening for the AIR/K-PMG asthma study. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 1988; 81(1,part 2):241.


PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:

Wilson SR. Motivating and assisting physicians to provide and support asthma self-management education: lessons from a community demonstration in Fresno, CA. Paper presented in the symposium " How can physicians foster self-management in their patients? ," Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society, San Francisco, May 20, 1997.

Wilson SR. The Fresno Asthma Project: A Model Community Intervention for Asthma Control. Invited presentation, Chicago Asthma Coalition, Chicago, IL, April 9, 1996.

Starr, NJ, Wilson, SR, Likosky, WH. Impact of the "Coping with MS Effectively" Program on psychosocial outcomes in MS patients. Platform presentation at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Consortium of MS Centers, September 16, 1995.

Wilson SR. Measures of parental management and impact of asthma on the family: variation with asthma severity and maternal smoking. ASTHMA 1995: Theory to Treatment, Joint ATS-AAAI conference, Chicago, IL, July 15-17, 1995.

Wilson SR. Healthy patients: the patient is a partner in health. Medical Administration Course, Session III, #347, presented at the Annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology, Anaheim, March 5, 1994.

Wilson SR. State of the art overview of asthma education. Keynote address presented at Canada's First National Conference on Asthma and Education, Toronto, November 26, 1993.

Forrest KA, Austin DM, Wilson SR. Prevalence and reasons for condom use by California Hispanic men with spouse or regular female partner. Paper presented at the 121st Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Francisco, October, 1993.

Wilson SR, Starr-Schneidkraut NJ, Austin DM, Fish L, Loes LA, Page A. Early intervention with parents of young children with asthma reduces nocturnal symptoms and improves overall control. Paper presented at the 1993 ALA/ATS International Conference, San Francisco, May 19, 1993.

Wilson SR. A controlled trial of two forms of self-management education for adults with asthma. Paper presented at the First National Conference on Asthma Management (Workshop Session VII - Patient Education with Adults), Arlington, October 12, 1992.

Wilson SR. A behavioral intervention to improve asthma management by parents of very young children. Paper presented at the International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, July 1992.

Siegel ER, Lindberg DAB, Rapp BA, Wilson SR. Evaluating the impact of MEDLINE using the Critical Incident Technique. Paper presented at the Medinfo Conference, Geneva, 1992.

Wilson SR. Behavioral models related to asthma care. Invited address presented at George Washington University Department of Health Care Sciences and Center for Health Policy Research Conference on "Asthma Care in the U.S.: Understanding the Effectiveness of Health Care Delivery and Barriers to Good Outcomes," San Diego, March 14-16, 1991.

Starr-Schneidkraut N, Wilson SR, Siegel ER, Rapp BA. On-line computerized bibliographic searching -- an essential tool for health professionals. Paper presented in the symposium, Applied Studies in Clinical Reasoning, at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, April 1991.

Fish L, Wilson SR, Rolnick C. Pediatric asthma education affects families and physicians. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology, San Francisco, March, 1991.

Rolnick SJ, Fish LA, Stancavage FB, Wilson SR. A cost analysis of pediatric asthma education. Poster presented at the 118th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, New York, October, 1990.

Wilson SR. Comparison of four family self-management health education programs in HMO's. Invited paper presented in the symposium, Educating children with chronic disease: models for asthma (Chairs, Clark, N. Kerrebijn, K.) at the 1990 World Conference on Lung Health, sponsored by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, American Lung Association, and American Thoracic Society in Boston, MA, May, 1990.

Stancavage FB, Wilson SR, Scamagas P, Arsham GM, Coss S, German DF, Hughes GW. Compliance and symptoms among adults with moderate to severe asthma. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in New Orleans, LA, August 1989.

Rolnick S, Troyer K, Arsham G, Wilson SR. Implementation of four pediatric asthma education programs. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Chicago, IL, November 1989.

Levine RE, Stancavage FB, Vintilla-Friedman S, Arsham GM, Wilson SR. Critical self-management competencies for adults with asthma: Identification and use for patient education. Poster presented at annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Boston, MS, November 1988.

Arsham GM, Vintilla-Friedman S, Stancavage FB, Hill L, Anderson S, Canary C, Schreiner N, Shefchick V, Wilson SR. Alternative instructional formats for teaching critical self-management competencies to adults with asthma: Group, individual, and self-study. Paper presented at XIII World Conference on Health Education in Houston, TX, August 1988.

Arsham GM, Wilson SR, Stancavage FB, Levine RE, Vintilla-Friedman S. Explicit rationales revisited -- A current application of a lost technique. Paper presented at annual meeting of the National Consortium for Instruction and Cognition, New Orleans, LA, April 1988.

Triplett HB, Wilson SR. The critical incident (CI) interview: a tool for standardizing performance evaluations. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Education in Anesthesia, San Diego, CA, March 1988.

Wilson SR, McNabb WL. AIR WISE and AIR POWER: Research results. Paper presented in the symposium on Pediatric Asthma Self-Management: Research Results, annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, New Orleans, March 1985.

Wilson SR, McNabb WL. Self-management competencies and control of asthma in children. Paper presented in symposium on Self-Management of Childhood Asthma, annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Montreal, November 1982.

Wilson SR. A five-year review of the relevance of MCAT science topics. Paper presented to the Group on Medical Education/Group on Student Affairs special session on the MCAT at the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, D.C., November 1982.

Wilson SR, Wise LL.Test item calibration. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, March 1982.

Wilson SR., Feldman C. Behavioral change as an intervention for children with asthma. Poster session at the third annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, March 1982.

Scamagas P, Rodabaugh BJ, Wilson SR. Self-management education programs for children with asthma. Paper presented at a National Conference on Self-Management Educational Systems for Asthmatic Children (sponsored by NIH, UCLA, and Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America), Los Angeles, June 1981.

Wilson SR. Implications of the characteristics of entering medical students for their specialty selection: Comparison of the Project TALENT and AAMC Longitudinal Study cohorts. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Los Angeles, April 1981.

Wise LL, Wilson SR, Stancavage FB. The development of medical practice and residence value scales that distinguish physicians in different specialties and practice locations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Boston, April 1980.

Wilson SR, Wise LL, Stancavage FB. Practice location decisions of National Health Service Corps (NHSC) and non-NHSC physicians. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Boston, April 1980.

Wilson SR. An analytic study of physician location decisions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of TIMS/ORSA, New Orleans, May 1979.

Wilson SR. Development of the New MCAT tests of Skills Analysis: Reading and Skills Analysis: Quantitative. Paper presented in a symposium at the National Council on Measurement in Education annual meeting, San Francisco, April 1976.


TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Stanford Lung Disease Research Center Seminar. Coordinator (with Glen Rosen), monthly research seminar, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, January, 1992 - present.

Research advisor. NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, Minority Supplement to HIV Prevention among High Risk Latino Couples , 5R01 HD30639, 1997-1999.

Faculty. Sensitivity and responsiveness; evaluating clinically and statistically significant differences. Postgraduate course Health-Related Quality of Life Research , Measuring Patient-Centered Outcomes, Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society, Chicago, April 24, 1998.

Research advisor/mentor to a total of four postdoctoral pulmonary fellows (Stanford), one transplant fellow (Stanford), one allergy fellow (UCSF/Kaiser), one Epidemiology and one health services research masters student (Stanford), and two medical students (Stanford), 1992 - present.

Lecturer. Design and interpretation/evaluation of clinical research. Veterans Administration Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Lecture, Palo Alto, CA, August 6, 1997.

Faculty. Asthma education: What should we teach our patients? Postgraduate course PG8, Update on Asthma Management Issues , Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society, San Francisco, May 17, 1997.

Invited speaker. The Fresno Asthma Project: A community-wide effort to address asthma as a public health problem. Pulmonary Grand Rounds, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, January 14, 1997.

Faculty. Interventions to control asthma in inner city and low income communities: the Fresno Asthma Project. Managing Asthma Care Conference: Interventions in Disease State Management, National Managed Health Care Congress, Scottsdale, AZ, April 15, 1996.

Lecturer. Critical issues in the design of clinical trials. Veterans Administration Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Lecture, Palo Alto, CA, January 31, 1996

Invited speaker. Asthma: A risk factor perspective. "S/P 1991 NIH Asthma guidelines: What have we learned?" Kaiser Permanente Medical Group 1995 Allergy Symposium, Berkeley, CA, October 21, 1995.

Invited speaker. Wee Wheezers : an educational program for parents of children under the age of seven with asthma. Pediatric Grand Rounds, San Joaquin Valley Children's Hospital, Fresno, CA, December 15, 1994.

Faculty. Educational principles and strategies used in the AIR/Kaiser Adult Asthma Self-Management Education Program. Fresno Asthma Project Asthma Educator Training Program, American Lung Association of Central California, 1994, Fresno, CA.

Faculty. The AIR/Kaiser Adult Asthma Self-Management Education Program: asthma educator training program. Kaiser Regional Health Education Department, Oakland, CA, July 20, 1992.

Faculty. The AIR POWER and AIR WISE Asthma Education Programs. Staff Education Conference, Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center, Martinez, CA, September 1986.

Invited lecture. Defining and measuring competence in anesthesia. In Training residents for competence, a practical workshop for clinical teachers in anesthesia, Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, October 1985.

Invited lecture. Resources for education of pediatric asthma patients and their families. Department of Pediatrics, The Permanente Medical Group, Santa Clara, CA, February 21, 1991.

Faculty. Education as a means of reducing utilization of services among pediatric asthma patients. Kaiser-Permanente Pediatric Staff Symposium, Napa, CA, October 1986.

Faculty. Workshop on Self-Management of Pediatric Asthma, American Lung Association of Mid-New York, Oneonta, NY, April 1986.

Faculty. Workshop on Self-Management of Pediatric Asthma, American Lung Association, Cleveland, September 1983.


TECHNICAL REPORTS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Wilson SR, Starr NJ, Scamagas P, Pomaville K, Grado J, Sant? Agata C, Eaton S, Norgaard L. The Fresno Asthma Project (Final Report, Contract No. N01-HO-39222, National Asthma Education and Prevention Program/NHLBI). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1997.

Wilson, SR, Lu, WB, Mitchell, JH, McClintock, CC. Revision of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Scholarship Program Application and Interview Process and Materials: Report of the Pilot Test (Contract No. 240-94-0031). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, November, 1996.

McClintock, CC, Mitchell, JH, Wilson, SR. Integrated Application and Interview Process (for the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1996.

Mitchell, JH, McClintock, CC, Wilson, SR. Guide for Training Interviewers (for the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research,1996.

McClintock, CC, Mitchell, JH, Wilson, SR. Interviewer Instruction Manual (for the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1996.

Wilson, SR, McClintock, CC, Mitchell, JH. Evaluation Guide for the NHSC Scholarship Award Process. Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1996.

 Wilson SR, Fish L, Latini D, Starr NJ, Lu BW. Wee Wheezers: Development and Evaluation of an Asthma Education Program for Parents of Children Under the Age of Seven. Final Progress Report, NIH Grant No. R01 HL41819, Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, August, 1996.

Forrest K, Latini DM, Wilson SR. Condom decision-making among California Hispanic Men (Final Report). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1996.

Wilson SR, Fish L, Page A, Starr-Schneidkraut NJ. Wee Wheezers : An educational program for parents of children with asthma under seven years of age. Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1994.

Wilson SR, McClintock CC, Austin DM, Mitchell JH. Final report on the analysis of NHSC Scholarship application form data and proposed strategy for a revised application form scoring protocol. Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1994.

Fowkes V, Gamel N, Garcia RD, Wilson SR, Stewart BR. Assessment of physician assistant (PA), nurse practitioner (NP), and nurse-midwife (CNM) training on meeting health-care needs of the underserved (Final Report and Executive Summary). Stanford, CA: Stanford University School of Medicine, Division of Family and Community Medicine, 1993.

Starr-Schneidkraut N, Wilson SR, Likosky W, Griffin C, Palmer-Hallam L, Hines C. The development of a coping skills program for persons with multiple sclerosis: Phase I (Final Report and Executive Summary). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1992.

AIR/Kaiser Adult Asthma Education Program. Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, April, 1992.

Starr-Schneidkraut N, Wilson SR. Use of the critical incident database to evaluate the economic impact of MEDLINE (Final Report). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1990. (NTIS Technical Report Number PB89-133722/GBB)

Wilson SR, Scamagas P, German D, Hughes G, Lulla S, Stancavage F. Self-Management Education for Adults with Asthma: the AIR/Kaiser Permanente Asthma Study (Final Report). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1990.

Wilson SR, Fowkes V, Campeau P. Evaluation of the impact of the national Area Health Education Centers program (Final Report). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1989.

Wilson SR, Starr-Schneidkraut N, Cooper M. Use of the critical incident technique to evaluate the impact of MEDLINE (Final Report). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1989. (NTIS Documents PB90-142522/XAB)

Wilson SR, Mitchell J, Scharf S, Stancavage F. Review of science content specifications for the Medical College Admission Test (Final Report, AIR Confidential). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1988.

Wilson SR, Stancavage FB, Levine RE. A study of potential black physicians (Final Report). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1985.

Stancavage FB, Wilson SR, Levine R. An in-depth examination of the 1980 decennial census employment data for health occupations (Final Report). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1984.

Wilson SR, Ozer V, Jacobs B, Stancavage FB, Wise LL. A review of current specifications for the content of the MCAT science subtests (Final report, AIR confidential). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1982.

Wilson SR, Stancavage FB, Wise LL. Synthesis of recent research on medical career decisions: A comparative study of two generations of physicians. Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1981.

Wilson SR, Stancavage FB, Wise LL. Career development of the Project TALENT Physicians: Supplementary report. Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1981.

Wilson SR, McClintock CC, Stancavage FB. Pilot National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Scholarship Interview Project (Final Report, AIR Confidential). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1981.

Wilson SR, Bagshaw MH, Scamagas P, Hughes GW, Rodabaugh BJ, McNabb WL, Stancavage FB. Development and evaluation of self-management programs for children with asthma (Final Report). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1981.

Wilson SR, Stancavage FB, Wise LL. Career development of the Project TALENT physicians (Final report and Executive summary). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1980.

McClintock CC, Wilson SR. Justification for items and proposed changes in the application for participation in the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program for use in the '81-'82 cycle (Final report). Washington, D.C.: DMTS/HRA, 1980.

Wilson SR, et al. An analytic study of physician location decisions regarding geographic location (Comprehensive Executive Summary of the Final Report). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1979.

American Institutes for Research (Wilson SR, Clemans WV, Shanner WM, test authors). SRA Achievement Series: Level H. Chicago, IL: Science Research Associates, Inc., 1978.

Wilson SR, Andrew BJ (Eds.). The definition of clinical competence in medicine: Performance dimensions and rationales for clinical skill areas. American Institutes for Research and National Board of Medical Examiners: Original publication, 1960; 2nd edition, 1976.

Wilson SR, Wise LL. The American citizen: 11 years after high school (Interim report, Project TALENT 11-year follow-up survey). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1975.

Wilson SR, Flanagan JC, Uhlaner JE. Quality of life as perceived by 30-year-old Army veterans (A Project TALENT study). Arlington, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1975.

Wilson SR. A status report on specifications development for the New MCAT examination (AIR Confidential). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1975.

Wilson SR, Flanagan JC. Quality of life as perceived by 30-year-old Army veterans: Supplementary report (A Project TALENT study). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research, 1974.

Reitz S. An evaluation of research on the supply, education, and licensing of health care personnel. Background paper prepared for the project on the Organization and Financing of a National Health Care System conducted by the Committee for Economic Development, New York, 1971.

Reitz S. The relationship between the primary visual cortex and the 'association areas'. Doctoral dissertation, Stanford University, 1968.


OTHER WORKSHOPS, INVITED PRESENTATIONS, SYMPOSIA, REVIEW, AND CONSULTING ACTIVITIES:

Member, Advisory Group, Leucotriene Inhibitor, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 1997.

Reviewer. Childhood Asthma: At the Time of Diagnosis (1996). Time-Life Medical, Patient Education Video Series (C. Everett Koop, Fran Comite, Eds.).

Reviewer. Clinical decision making aids: clinical practice guidelines / clinical pathways / clinical algorithms (Position statement, version 1, August 22, 1995), prepared by the QMI Clinical Practice Guidelines Panel convened by the Veterans Health Administration Quality Management Institute and Education Center, Durham, NC.

Co-Chair (with Kevin Weiss, M.D.). Symposium on asthma outcomes measures. ASTHMA 1995: Theory to Treatment, Joint ATS-AAAI conference, Chicago, IL, July 15-17, 1995

Co-Chair (with William Bailey, M.D.). NHLBI/Division of Lung Diseases Workshop on Outcome Measures for Asthma Studies, June, 1992

Discussant. Symposium on asthma self-management education in adults. ALA/ATS International Conference, Miami, May, 1992.

Consultant, Division of Family and Community Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Assessment of Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, and Nurse-Midwife Training on meeting the health care needs of the underserved, contract, HRSA, 1991-92.

Contributor, International Consensus Report on Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, Bethesda: NHLBI/NIH, 1992.Invited speaker. Needs and opportunities for behavioral research related to asthma in women. Presentation to the NHLBI/Division of Lung Diseases meeting on Research Needs and Opportunities Related to Respiratory Health in Women, Bethesda, January, 1992.

Speaker. Evaluation of the National Area Health Education Center Program. Briefing (with Virginia K. Fowkes) for Health Resources and Services Administration Staff, Rockville, January 10, 1990.

Invited speaker. Results of the study using the critical incident technique to evaluate the impact of MEDLINE. Report, with Siegel, E., to the National Library of Medicine's Board of Regents, Bethesda, October 5, 1989.

Chair, workshop. Defining future research on the professions, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting Pre-Conference Session, New Orleans, April 4-5, 1988.

Invited speaker. Improving professional education: using the critical incident technique. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 1988.

Chair, symposium. Improving the 'dismal science' of prediction in professional education, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 1987.

Faculty. Workshop on Self-Management of Pediatric Asthma, American Lung Association of Dade-Monroe, Inc., Miami, March 1987.

Task Force participant and author of Recommendations of the Panel on Educational Programs for Asthma. Joint American Academy of Allergy and Immunology, American Thoracic Society, National Institutes of Health Task Force on Asthma Mortality Conference, Bethesda, November 1986.

Invited speaker. Reflections on the policy implications of research on medical career decisions: specialty and location, Institute for Health Policy Studies Seminar, University of California, San Francisco, December 1984.

Discussant, paper session. Research on the New MCAT, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, April 1983.


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