Syed Ahmed, MD, MPH, DrPH

Syed M. Ahmed is the Senior Associate Dean for Community Engagement and a Professor within the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). As a Senior Associate Dean, he serves as a catalyst for the development of intra and extra-institutional initiatives which advance community engagement.

Dr. Ahmed has made national and international contributions to the field of community health, community-academic partnerships, community-based participatory research, and community engaged research (CEnR). He has been an invited speaker at Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Dr. Ahmed has also been the Director of the Community Engagement Key Function of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin for the last seven years. With this key function, he brought together multiple disciplines from the eight institutions of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin. Dr. Ahmed has been a practicing family physician for more than thirty years.