Dr. Syed Ahmed Named Senior Associate Dean for Community Engagement at Medical College of Wisconsin

Syed M. Ahmed, M.D., M.P.H, Dr.PH., has been named Senior Associate Dean for Community Engagement at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW).

Dr. Ahmed is a professor of family and community medicine, and also serves as a professor in the Institute for Health and Society. He is also the director of the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program, and director of the Center for Healthy Communities and Research.

In his new role, Dr. Ahmed will provide leadership in improving the health of the communities served by MCW through community partnerships and integration across the school’s four missions of research, education, patient care and community engagement. Additionally, he will serve as the external representative for MCW’s Community Engagement Mission.

Before joining the Medical College of Wisconsin, Dr. Ahmed was Vice Chair of Research in Wright State University's Department of Family Medicine and founding Director of the Alliance of Research in Community Health in Dayton, Ohio. He also founded and directed Reach Out of Montgomery County, a highly successful volunteer health care program established with a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Dr. Ahmed has made nationally and internationally recognized contributions to the field of community health, community-academic partnerships, community-based participatory research and community engaged research. His many recognitions for outstanding service to underserved and uninsured communities include the Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition in 2000 from the U.S. Congress, the Ohio Quality of Care Award in 2000, and the Wright State University Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Professional Service in 2001, and the Humanism in Medicine Award in 2001 from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Dr. Ahmed received his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees at Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka University, Bangladesh and his Master and Doctorate in Public Health at the University of Texas School of Public Health, in Houston. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a Diplomate of the American Board of Family Practice and a Scholar with the National Public Health Leadership Institute’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention.