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Associate Dean and Director of the Office of Diversity
Expertise: Health care policy, disparities in health care, minority health care advocacy
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Ross has an interest in health policy and resolving health-care disparities. He has delivered lectures, sponsored symposiums and produced educational videos on eliminating medical disparities. Over the past three years, he has served as president of the Mound City Medical Forum, a leading minority medical organization that promotes elimination of medical disparities. He serves as a commissioner for the St. Louis Regional Health Commission and as a board member of the Missouri Foundation for Health, one of the nation's largest health-care foundations. He also served as the health care consultant for the area's African American newspaper, the St. Louis American.
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Helping hands
Students get hands-on experience in Forest Park Southeast
Nov. 3,
2006 --
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| (From left) Theodore Armstrong, a pre-doctoral fellow, and Jourdan Stuart, a first-year medical student, discuss a patient they examined with faculty supervisor Will Ross. |
Instead of sleeping in, some School of Medicine students spend their Saturday mornings providing free health care to residents of the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. From 9 a.m.-noon each Saturday, teams of students and one volunteer attending physician from the School of Medicine see walk-in patients at the Family Care Health Center at 4352 Manchester Ave.
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Fulfilling the dream
Ross receives medical service award from Martin Luther King commission
Jan. 10,
2005 --
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Will Ross, M.D., associate dean and director of the Office of Diversity at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the 2005 Distinguished Community Service in Medicine Award by the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. State Celebration Commission.
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For medical schools, minorities are the star recruits
New York Times
Oct. 13,
2004 -- Many medical schools are adopting special recruiting techniques in an effort to increase the racial diversity of their classes. Will Ross, the School of Medicine's associate dean for diversity programs, comments about our program.
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