American College of Physicians confers ‘Mastership’ status on former UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Dean Joshua Wynne
The American College of Physicians (ACP) has included former UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Dean, Joshua Wynne, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., on its list of 2026-27 Masters.
Established to “recognize excellence and distinguished contributions to internal medicine,” the ACP established its Mastership Award Program in 1923 and recognizes 50-plus physicians with the accolade each year, granting recipients the MACP credential.
“I am very honored by this designation from the American College of Physicians,” said Wynne. “For my entire professional life, I have tried to balance the quadruple goals of teaching, research and scholarship, administration, and patient care. All four missions have been very important to me, and Mastership designation is an affirmation of my efforts in all four realms.”
Wynne was nominated for the MACP by Dr. Joshua Ranum, governor of the ACP’s North Dakota chapter and a 2008 SMHS grad who practices internal medicine at West River Health Services in Hettinger, N.D.
“Dr. Wynne’s litany of accomplishments in research, teaching, patient care, and medical education are the embodiment of an ACP Master,” said Ranum, a former president of the North Dakota Medical Association. “His tremendous service to the state as the Dean of the medical school is what most North Dakotans think of when we think of Dr. Wynne. But I was blown away by the list of publications and accolades he earned prior to coming to North Dakota.”
Born in New York City, Wynne graduated from Boston University’s combined Bachelor of Arts/Medical Doctor program. After completing an internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship training at Harvard University’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital (now Mass General Brigham), Wynne stayed on faculty at Harvard, managing the hospital’s Non-invasive Cardiac Laboratory. He then spent many years as Chief of Cardiology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich., before moving to North Dakota’s only interprofessional school of medicine and health sciences in 2004.
A widely published researcher, Wynne served as UND’s President from 2019-20 and was appointed as North Dakota’s Chief Health Strategist in June 2020, helping to guide the university and the state through the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-21.
ACP Mastership is a lifetime appointment.
“I also am grateful to Dr. Ranum for coordinating and endorsing my nomination for this very great honor,” added Wynne. “Thank you to all!”
