Dr. Wilson Ray

Wilson Z. Ray is a Henry G. and Edith R. Schwartz Professor at Washington University School of Medicine; Executive Vice-Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery; Professor of Neurosurgery, Orthopedic Surgery, and Biomedical Engineering; Chief of the Division of Spine Surgery; and Director of the Peripheral Nerve Fellowship and Castle Connolly Top Doctor. He completed his MD studies at the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 2004 and MBA studies at Washington University, Olin School of Business in 2023. His research focuses on strategies to improve nerve regeneration and the development of innovative technology targeting peripheral nerve/neuroprosthetic interfaces, as well as the management of spinal cord injuries utilizing novel imaging modalities and surgical techniques to help predict functional recovery and provide patients with spinal cord injuries with improved distal limb function. He is the co-director of the Center for Spinal Cord Injury and is the principal investigator of multiple clinical trials on acute spinal cord injury and cervical myelopathy.