Roderick King is Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at the University of Maryland Medical System. Previously, he was Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement, MD/MPH Director, Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, as well as CEO Florida Institute for Health Innovation. He has also served as Senior Faculty at the MGH Disparities Solutions Center and faculty in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Prior to that, Dr. King was the New England Regional Director for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and a Commander in the U.S. Public Health Service. During his tenure with HRSA, Dr. King was selected as a Council in Excellence in Government Fellow.
Dr. King earned a B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College with honors in research. Upon completing a residency in pediatrics at the Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C. in 1995, he received the Teachers for Africa Award and served as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, West Africa providing public health instruction to those providing care to populations in rural areas. In 1997, Dr. King was selected for the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy Program. He continued his health policy work with the Senior Health Policy Internship at the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services where he developed a model to review health workforce planning for the New England Region with HRSA’s Bureau of Health Professions.