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The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
announced today the appointment of M. Roy Wilson, M.D., M.S., an
award-winning physician and academic administrator, as NIMHD's Deputy
Director Strategic Scientific Planning and Program Coordination. NIMHD is
part of the National Institutes of Health.

"Dr. Wilson is a well-respected physician and academician who brings
extensive senior-level administrative experience that will be vital to
NIMHD," said NIMHD Director John Ruffin, Ph.D. "I am very excited to have
Dr. Wilson join us at a time when the NIMHD is transitioning to an
institute. His exceptional leadership will be especially crucial as the
NIMHD seeks to strengthen its coordination role of all minority health and
health disparities research at NIH."

Prior to joining NIMHD, Dr. Wilson served as chancellor of the University of
Colorado Denver; president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences
Center, Amarillo, and dean of the Creighton University School of Medicine,
Omaha, Neb. Most recently, Dr. Wilson chaired the board of trustees at
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, serving as
acting president from 2010 to 2011. Under Dr. Wilson's leadership, the
university regained full institutional accreditation and stabilized its
finances. 

Dr. Wilson's international research has focused on surveying causes of low
vision and blindness in populations from the Caribbean to West Africa. He is
a member of the Institute of Medicine. He has served on the executive
committee of the NIH-funded Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study and chaired
the Data Monitoring and Oversight Committee of the NIH-funded Los Angeles
Latino Eye Study. Dr. Wilson was also a member of the advisory councils of
both NIMHD and the former National Center for Research Resources, as well as
the NIH Director's Working Group on Diversity in the Biomedical Research
Workforce.

Born in Yokohama, Japan, Dr. Wilson received his undergraduate degree from
Allegheny College Meadville, Pa., an M.S. in epidemiology from the
University of California, Los Angeles, and his M.D. from Harvard Medical
School, Boston. Dr. Wilson was selected to the list of Best Doctors in
America 14 times by Best Doctors Inc., and became a finalist for the Los
Angeles Business Journal's Healthcare CEO of the Year in 2011.  His
additional honors include the American Academy of Ophthalmology's Senior
Achievement Award, the Distinguished Physician Award from the Minority
Health Institute, and the Herbert W. Nickens Award from the Association of
American Medical Colleges.

As deputy director, Dr. Wilson will provide leadership and direction to
NIMHD's strategic scientific planning and program coordination efforts. He
will oversee the development and implementation of an integrated system for
coordinating the NIH minority health and health disparities research
portfolio, working in collaboration with the NIH Institutes and Centers.