Director, Center of Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
Henry Ford Health System;
Detroit, Michigan, USA 

Ronald M. Davis, M.D., became director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention of the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit in 1995.  He is also director of health promotion and disease prevention for the Henry Ford Medical Group and Associate Medical Director for Health Alliance Plan.  From 1991 to 1995, he served as Chief Medical Officer in the Michigan Department of Public Health.  From 1987 to 1991, Dr. Davis was director of the Office on Smoking and Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  He completed the Epidemic Intelligence Service program and the preventive medicine residency program at CDC; received his M.D. and Master of Arts degree in Public Policy Studies from the University of Chicago; and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan. 

Dr. Davis was elected to the American Medical Association’s Board of Trustees in June 2001.  He previously served as the first resident physician member of the AMA Board of Trustees from 1984 to 1987.  He was a member of the AMA Council on Scientific Affairs from 1993 to 1999, and served as chair of the Council from 1997 to 1998.   Dr. Davis represents the AMA on the Board of Commissioners of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.  He has served on the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC) of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration) since 1999, and became chair of MCAC in September 2003.

Dr. Davis has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, and has received many awards and honors, including the Surgeon General's Medallion, the American Public Health Association's Jay S. Drotman Memorial Award, the American College of Preventive Medicine’s Distinguished Service Award, the World Health Organization’s World No-Tobacco Day medal and award, the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco’s John Slade Award, and the American Thoracic Society’s Distinguished Service Award.  He was the founding editor of Tobacco Control, an international peer-reviewed journal published quarterly by the British Medical Association, and served in that role from 1992 to 1998.  Dr. Davis was North American editor of the British Medical Journal from 1998 to 2001, and was the founding editor of BMJ USA, a monthly "local edition" of the BMJ launched in February 2001.

May 2004