Rhonda McIntyre, MBBS, FAAP, FRCP(C)

Senior Associate Dean, External Affairs & Accreditation
Dr. McIntyre
Contact Information

rmcintyre@rossu.edu

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Biography

Dr. Rhonda McIntyre is an experienced academic leader with an over 20-year career in medical education and building and leading programs in international medical schools. In her role as Senior Associate Dean of External Affairs at Ross University School of Medicine (RUSM), she leads the development of strategic institutional and community partnerships that provide opportunities for high quality academic offerings. She also oversees RUSM’s accreditation. Dr. McIntyre successfully co-led the development of RUSM’s current (2021-2025) 4-year strategic plan.

With a wealth of experience in academic leadership, medical education, and clinical practice she merges her expertise in leading high quality medical education with a commitment to equitable healthcare. An accomplished clinician leader with North American and Caribbean experience, she has a well-informed broad view of the challenges facing marginalized populations. An innovative and creative academic, Dr. McIntrye is passionate about creating impactful medical education opportunities relevant to the needs of the next generation of physicians and believes that exposing medical students to a wide range of communities is integral to improving healthcare.

In November 2025 Authority Magazine published an interview with Dr McIntyre on the importance of improving patient outcomes in underrepresented populations. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gMt8gBdc

Education
  • Medical/Doctoral Degree: MBBS, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, 1985
  • Residency: Pediatrics, British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1992-1996
Areas of Expertise
  • Medical Education
  • Administrative Leadership
  • Accreditation Pediatrics
  • Community Medicine
  • Global Health
Honors and Awards
  • DeVry Teach Award for “Doing well by doing good.” — 2014
  • DeVry Pride Award — 2012
  • Ron Taylor Award — 2011
  • Ron Taylor Award — 2009
  • TEACH Award — 2014
  • Pride Award — 2012
  • Adtalem Trail Blazer Award — 2018                      
  • Ron Taylor Award — 2018, 2011, 2009
Research Interests
  • Global health
  • Underserved populations
Publications
  • Prevalence of Anemia in Preschool Aged children living in Dominica Journal of Pediatric Care. Vol. 3 No. 3:12. August 2017 Poster at AAP NCE 2017
  • “A survey of dietary habits in children younger than four in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya.” The Journal of Global Health, spring 2016 edition. Poster at AAP NCE 2016
  • A retrospective study of the clinical manifestations of the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection observed in the pediatric patient population in Dominica. Oral presentation at American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition October, 2015 Conference Washington DC
  • Banerjee, S.,* McIntyre, R.,* Chumley, H. *Each author has contributed equally to this review article. Impact of US-IMG training in the Global South on the Healthcare System in the Global North. Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health. In-press
  • Banerjee, S., Khubchandani, J., England-Kennedy, E., McIntyre, R., Kopera-Frye, K., & Batra, K. (2024, November). Cognitive Functioning Influences Mortality Risk Among Older Adults with COPD. In Healthcare (Vol. 12, No. 22, p. 2220). MDPI.
  • Brittany Noel Robles*, Adelbert B James, Raffaele Macri, Mai Xiong, Sabeen Jafri, Alyssa Vitale, Victoria Beata, Sarah Faheem and Rhonda McIntyre-Francis* Prevalence of Anemia in Preschool Aged children living in Dominica
  • Journal of Pediatric Care. Vol. 3 No. 3:12. August 2017
  • Brittany Noel Stuart, MD, Gregory E. Gilbert, EdD, MSPH, Andrea Parks, Rhonda McIntyre-Francis, MBBS*“A survey of dietary habits in children younger than four in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. “The Journal of Global Health, spring 2016 edition.
Affiliations and Memberships
  • Member of The American Academy of Pediatrics, Global Health Education for Equity, Anti-Racism, and Decolonization (GHEARD) Project Advisory Committee (PAC)  
  • Board member of the Caribbean accreditation in medicine and health professions (CAAM HP)
  • Commissioner of the National non-communicable Disease Commission, Barbados  
  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Canada)               
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics                       
  • Section on Global Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics                  
  • Section on Global Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics                      
  • Section on Simulation and Innovative Learning Methods of the American Academy of Pediatrics