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Margaret A. Wilson, M.D.
2010 TSA Distinguished Service Award
Saturday, September 11, 2010, 9:30 a.m.
Margaret (Peggy) Wilson was born in Chicago, IL, the first of Dr. John and Helen Wilson’s three children. At the age of 5, her parents moved with her to Tucson, AZ. She attended 1st grade through medical school within a three mile radius of her home.
As a senior medical student at the University of Arizona, she learned how exciting anesthesia was from Dr. Burnell Brown. Later that year she had the opportunity to spend three months studying at the Nuffield Department of Medicine in Oxford, England and to visit the Nuffield Department of Anaesthesia, medical home of Sir Robert McIntosh. On the recommendation of Dr. Brown, she applied for residency training at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, always intending to return to Tucson to practice. In June, 1973, her parents delivered her to M.T. “Pepper” Jenkins, MD for training and safe-keeping.
On day one at Parkland, Peggy was introduced to a fellow resident and told, jokingly, to “stay away from him.” That resident, Jim Sims, became her husband in April, 1975. It has been a wonderful 35 year relationship-in Texas! When one marries a Texan, one stays in Texas.
Those years of residency were some of the best of Peggy’s life. Parkland Hospital combined a phenomenal clinical experience with camaraderie. There she began learning the importance and benefit of the ASA and TSA. Dr. Jenkins, the immediate past-President of the ASA, insisted that all his residents belong to both professional organizations. He also stressed that anesthesia was a young specialty, allowing one to meet many “pioneers” of the discipline, and he frequently introduced them to his residents.
Peggy’s first position after training was at UTHSC in San Antonio with Dr. Howard Zauder, another past-President of the ASA. After a year in San Antonio, she and Jim traveled to Brisbane, Australia to work in a 1,200 bed hospital, she as a senior registrar and he as a staff anaesthetist. They indulged their love of travel by visiting the South Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, SE Asia, Nepal, India, Africa, Greece and England during the next 18 months.
In 1979, Peggy rejoined the UTHSC-SA faculty, where she worked for six years, becoming an Associate Professor. In the early 1980’s, when her Chairman requested that she do the local arrangements for a TSA meeting in San Antonio, she couldn’t say no and her close association with TSA began. Since that time, she has served in the TSA House of Delegates, as Treasurer, Vice President and President of the TSA, as well as on various committees. She is currently the Chair of the Administrative Affairs Committee. She has been honored to serve in the ASA House of Delegates as a member from Texas since 1989, as well as on several ASA committees.
In 1985, Peggy joined Spillar Anesthesia in private practice in San Antonio and, although missing the residents, has always enjoyed the “personal touch” private practice allowed her. She has served on numerous hospital committees and as Chairman of the Anesthesia Department at Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital. During the past 25 years, she has been fortunate to join several San Antonio medical groups providing care in Honduras and Mexico.
In her leisure time, Peggy enjoys traveling the world, reading and all types of handwork, including cutting cedar at the ranch. The most important things in her life are family, friends and health-including anesthesia.
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