Who We Are

Lt. Col. Robert Wilson

Director, Psychological Health Clinical Standards of Care
Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE)

Air Force Lt. Col. Robert J. Wilson currently serves as the director of the Psychological Health Clinical Standards of Care Directorate of DCoE. Prior to joining DCoE, Wilson held the position of deputy director at the Deployment Health Clinical Center, where he played a key role in the development, dissemination and implementation of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). For example, he was the sole Department of Defense (DoD) psychologist on two DoD/VA CPG working groups on amputation rehabilitation and major depressive disorder, respectively, and he was the operational developer/manager of the RESPECT-Mil program, a CPG implementation program for Major Depression and PTSD deployed at 17 power projection installations throughout the Army.

During his 21 year career, he has been a behavioral health flight commander twice, a medical services flight commander once, and the psychology department chair and clinical psychology training director at Malcolm Grow Medical Center, one of the largest behavioral health flights in the Air Force. During his tenure at Malcolm Grow, he led the integration of behavioral health services into seven primary care clinics, providing lower stigma and same-day access for an enrolled population of 80,000 beneficiaries. He led the three-month Air Force behavioral health response to the “9/11” Pentagon attack and led a psychological first aid team to the Dover Air Force Base Morgue for one month during the OIF invasion to provide psychological support to DoD Mortuary Affairs personnel. His efforts culminated in his receiving the John Flanagan USAF Senior Psychologist of the Year Award in 2003.

Wilson completed his clinical psychology residency and a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical health psychology at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center. Wilson received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the Florida Institute of Technology and completed a master’s degree in psychology at Marywood University. For his undergraduate education, he attended Barton College and received a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He is an Oklahoma licensed health services psychologist and is board certified in clinical health psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology.