Philip Wilson, PhD

Human Development Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

Philip Wilson, PhD, is the Director of the Human Development Center at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. Phil completed his PhD in Special Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Throughout his career, his professional focus has been on issues impacting persons with the most significant support needs with an emphasis on strategies to promote and facilitate community participation.

During the first decade of his career, Phil worked primarily as a direct service professional, first in an institution serving children with intellectual and multiple disabilities, then group homes, and finally as a job coach. He worked in a state department of education and several universities providing in-service and preservice training for special and general educators in support of their efforts to implement inclusive education for students with the most significant support needs during the second decade of his career. Phil began working at the Human Development Center in 1999. He has served as director of the UCEDD for the past six years.

Phil currently manages five federally funded projects and an equal number of state funded contracts all of which focus in some way on increasing and/or improving community participation of individuals with significant support needs. In addition, he serves as director of a LEND program that operates under a sub-award from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' LEND grant.