Professor Marvin Reid is serving as Acting Deputy Principal of the Mona Campus following the passing of Dr. Tomlin Paul on March 9, 2026. He is the 1983 GraceKennedy Foundation Scholar and a graduate of the University of the West Indies (UWI), where he earned the MBBS (1988) with honours, receiving subject prize medals in Physiology and Pathology, as well as a PhD (1999).
He has served the UWI community in several leadership roles, including Director of the Sickle Cell Unit (2004–2013) and the Tropical Metabolism Research Unit (2013–2020), Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences (2019–2024), and Associate Lecturer in the Department of Community Medicine and Psychiatry (2006–present). He was appointed Consultant in the Office of the Deputy Principal on August 1, 2024, and currently serves as Principal Director in the Office of Research, Innovation & Partnerships at the Mona Campus, a position he assumed on August 1, 2025.
He teaches Clinical Nutrition, Research Methods, and Family Medicine at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and has supervised several doctoral students to completion. An accomplished researcher with a career h-index of 45, Professor Reid’s work spans public health, metabolism, and clinical trials. He has co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed articles (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4005-9384), as well as several book chapters, and has received the Mona Campus Principal’s Award and The UWI Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence, in addition to other international awards for research publications.
Professor Reid is a Family Doctor and a Fellow of the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians (WONCA). He has contributed to the development of clinical guidelines for the treatment of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and sickle cell disease at both national and international levels. He co-chairs the Essential National Health Research Committee of the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Jamaica, which oversees the country’s health research agenda, and serves on the Research Advisory Committee of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA). He is also an active member of several national, regional, and international professional bodies, including the Medical Association of Jamaica (President, 2023–2025), the Caribbean College of Family Physicians (President, 2019–2025), and the American Physiological Society.
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