Chief of Surgery and Great Mentor, Carl Wilson M.D., Dies Age 85

Carl E. Wilson, M.D., former chief of surgery at St. Rose Hospital in Hayward, California, and retired orthopedic trauma surgeon, died of renal failure on December 14, 2022, at Northwest Hospital in Randallstown, Maryland. He was 85.

As an orthopedic trauma surgeon, he served patients in California and New York and was known as a great mentor to the new doctors he trained.

Dr. Wilson’s medical training began in the early 1960s at State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He received his medical degree in 1964 and continued to a surgical internship at Kings County Hospital in 1965. One year later he completed a general surgical residency at Presbyterian Hospital at the University of Pittsburgh.

From July 1966 to the end of the year, Dr. Wilson was an orthopedic researcher at Presbyterian Hospital which was then followed, from 1967 to 1969, with an orthopedic residency at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.

With his training complete, Dr. Wilson decided to move across the country to San Franscisco. From 1969 to 1975, he practiced orthopedic surgery with the Permanente Medical Group and Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Hayward, California. Then from 1975 to 1989, he had his own private practice in the community.

Dr. Wilson served as chief of surgery at St. Rose Hospital in Hayward from 1982 to 1984 and was secretary-treasurer of the hospital’s medical staff from 1987 to 1988. During his time with the hospital, he also served as chairman of the tissue committee from 1987 to 1989.

When he was ready to move back to the East Coast, Wilson settled on the Upper East Side in Manhattan and continued to practice orthopedic surgery. From 1998 to 1999, he worked with the New York Medical Group in the Bronx. And then from 1999 to 2012, he had a private practice in the Bronx. He was affiliated with St. Barnabas Hospital.

During his career, he was also very active in training and mentoring residents. While not fully retiring until 2020, he stopped operating in 2012. He continued to do medical evaluations until 2021 when the pandemic hit.

Born on December 5, 1937, in Jackson, Mississippi, to Stennis Aline Hendrick Wilson and Everett Bluford Wilson; He was raised in Essex, Maryland, where his father took a job building warplanes with the old Glenn L. Martin Co. in Middle River during World War II.

Wilson graduated from Kenwood High School in 1956 and then attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and graduated with his bachelor’s degree in 1960.

In 1992, he purchased a small house with lots of land in Phoenix. Baltimore County, where he and his wife Dr. Sabine Wilson retired.

Wilson also loved to play piano and travel. He spent much time in Sydney, Australia and Paris, France, where he met his wife on Valentine’s Day in 1991. They were married in New York City in 1999.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sisters, Carolyn Wilson Heggie of Jacksonville, Baltimore County, and Annette Wilson Farrar of Magalia, California as well as a niece, and a nephew.