Brigadier Duncan Wilson is Medical Director to the Surgeon General and Head of Research & Clinical Innovation for the UK Defence Medical Services. A Respiratory Physician by background, Brigadier Wilson trained predominantly at the Brompton Hospital in London where he also completed an MD, having conducted research into the mechanism of grass pollen immunotherapy in seasonal allergic rhinitis.
Brigadier Wilson was a Consultant in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine/University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust from September 2001 to March 2022. He was the lead consultant for asthma and a founder member of the Birmingham Regional Severe Asthma Service. He has been Principal Investigator for a number of asthma-related clinical trials. He completed an MSc in Healthcare Leadership in 2016 and chaired the Specialist Advisory Group in Asthma for the British Thoracic Society.
Brigadier Wilson was appointed Defence Professor of Military Medicine in 2012 and then in 2018 was appointed as Defence Consultant Adviser in Medicine. He has been on the editorial Board of the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps (now BMJ Military Health) for many years and is now a member of the Senior Advisory Board.
After 2 years as Deputy head, Brigadier Wilson was appointed Head, Research & Clinical Innovation in March 2021 and Medical Director to the Surgeon General later that year.