Dr. Wilson is a board certified cardiologist with a special interest in stress and its effects on cardiovascular health and disease.

He attended the University of Wisconsin Medical School, and did his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota, where he stayed on to do his cardiology training. He joined the faculty there in 1986 as the director of Acute Cardiac Care.

Dr. Wilson was recruited to Pittsburgh in 1989 to build and direct the University of Pittsburgh Heart Institute.

He moved to his home town of Milwaukee in 1991, where he established a practice in interventional cardiology at Columbia Hospital. He served as Chief of Cardiology and Chairman of Medical Education there. He was Chairman of the Board of the Heart Hospital of Milwaukee, and currently has a private practice in suburban Milwaukee. Dr. Wilson is the Medical Director of HeartMath which is located in Boulder Creek, California, and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards from multiple academic institutions.

Dr. Wilson began working with the Institute of HeartMath in 1997 while searching for a scientifically valid and measurable method of reducing stress in his cardiac patients. He helped to develop their Health Care Division in 1998. He has lectured nationally and internationally on the topic of stress and using the HeartMath tools to reduce it, thereby improving health as well as performance. He has also worked with professional golfers in the PGA and LPGA on how to improve their own performance and teach the tools as part of golf instruction.

Dr. Wilson is the author of a number of medical articles as well as The HeartMath Approach to Managing Hypertension, released by New Harbinger Publications in January, 2007.