He served as a faculty physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; as the founding regional dean for the Western Clinical Campus of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine; and as dean of Chicago Medical School and vice president for medical affairs of Rosalind Franklin University. He led the WVU School of Medicine for five years from 2010 – 2015. During his tenure at WVU, the School expanded its faculty substantially; won a major, multi-year NIH award to develop clinical and translational research; and fully restructured its faculty practice and teaching hospital management. In 2015 the School received a full eight year re-accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME).
He is a graduate of Trinity College and the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, with postgraduate medical and research training at Duke University Medical Center; University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He earned a master’s in administrative medicine from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a master’s in business administration from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse.
Dr. Ross has been selected as a leader of several national professional and accrediting organizations. He is a past chair of the Governing Council for the American Medical Association Section on Medical Schools, as well as a past chair of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME). In 2015 he completed a term as an elected member of the AAMC’s Administrative Board of the Council of Deans. At the present time Dr. Ross is actively engaged as a consultant for medical schools, academic health centers and large, highly integrated health systems. His consulting work focuses upon: 1) Academic Health Center / Hospital / Hospital System affiliations, mergers & acquisitions. 2) Medical school accreditation / reaccreditation and 3) Coaching (Deans and SVPs of Academic Health Centers.)