Associate Dean for Diversity, Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine
Will Ross, MD, MPH, is associate dean for diversity, principal officer for community partnerships,
and alumni endowed professor of medicine in the Nephrology Division at Washington University School of Medicine. He has overseen diversity and inclusion and community engagement for nearly three decades, creating durable pipeline programs to develop a diverse workforce of students, residents and faculty in medicine and public health. Those efforts include broadening the societal understanding of the social determinants of health, improving medicine, public health and STEM workforce diversity, and expanding the school of medicine’s local public health footprint. He has promoted health equity locally, nationally and globally through collaborations with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and public health officials in Ethiopia and Haiti. He is the founder of the former Saturday Free Health Clinic and co-founder of Casa de Salud Latino Health Center. Dr. Ross is board chair and founding member of the Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience, a magnet health professions high school in St. Louis. He has received and administered federal and local grants to attract underrepresented students and trainees into careers in STEM and medicine fields.
He is a past member of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Health Disparities Committee, where he helped incorporate social determinants of health in the CDC promotions framework and Healthy People 2020. He served as chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Advancing Holistic Review Initiative, and is a founding associate editor of the public health journal, Frontiers in Public Health Education and Promotion. Dr. Ross has numerous scientific publications. A graduate of Yale University, he completed medical school at Washington University School of Medicine, an Internal Medicine residency at Vanderbilt University, and a Renal Fellowship at Washington University. He completed a Master of Science in Epidemiology at the Saint Louis University School of Public Health.
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