Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick

Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick is the interim president of Howard University. Previously, he was provost and chief academic officer, overseeing the university’s 13 schools and health sciences enterprise. A surgeon who earned three degrees from Howard, Frederick is a respected researcher who has focused on health disparities, with a particular emphasis on cancer outcomes among African-Americans and other underrepresented groups. Frederick was named a “Super Doctor” by The Washington Post and listed on Ebony Magazine’s Power 100 in 2010.