Dr. Ronny Bell is co-director of the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity, at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and received his M.Ed. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He is Professor in the Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, at Wake Forest School of Medicine, with training in nutrition and epidemiology. He received the Community Spirit Award from the American Diabetes Association in 2012 at a ceremony in Washington, DC, in recognition of his work in understanding and addressing diabetes disparities with the American Indian/Alaska Native population.
