Steven E. Wilson received his M.S in molecular biology and biochemistry from the UC Irvine in 1977. He received his MD from UC San Diego in 1984. He completed his ophthalmology residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN in 1988 and was a fellow in cornea and refractive surgery at LSU Eye Center in New Orleans from 1988 to 1990. Dr. Wilson was an assistant/associate professor at UT Southwestern in Dallas from 1990 to 1995. He was a professor of cell biology, neurobiology, and anatomy and medical director of refractive surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland from 1995 to 1998. From 1998 to 2003, he was chair of ophthalmology and Grace E. Hill Endowed Chair in Vision Research at the University of Washington in Seattle. Since 2003, he has been professor of ophthalmology, and staff refractive and corneal surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland. Dr. Wilson's laboratory is focused on cellular and molecular interactions involved in wound healing in the cornea, especially growth factors and receptors in the cornea, basement membranes, and fibrosis. He was funded by the National Eye Institute of NIH from 1992 to 2021 and funded by the US DOD from 2019 to 2025. Dr. Wilson has authored more than 280 peer-reviewed medical and scientific publications. He has received numerous awards, including ARVO Gold Fellow in 2009 and Lifetime Presidential Award from ISRS-AAO in 2009. Dr. Wilson received the Barraquer Award from ISRS-American Academy of Ophthalmology in 2020.