Ron J. Anderson, M.D. is President and Chief Executive Officer of Parkland Health & Hospital System, the general public hospital for Dallas County, Texas and the primary teaching hospital for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

 Dr. Anderson became Chief Executive Officer of Parkland in 1982. He previously served as Parkland's Medical Director for Ambulatory Care and Emergency Services. Dr. Anderson has remained on the faculty of the Medical School as Professor of Internal Medicine and continues to see patients and teach house staff physicians at Parkland.

 Dr. Anderson served on the executive committee of the State Task Force on Indigent Health Care and in 1985 played a major role in the passage of landmark legislation concerning indigent health care in Texas. He was appointed Co-Chair of the Attorney General's Task Force to study not-for-profit hospitals and unsponsored charity care in 1988, and served as a member of Governor Richard's Health Policy Task Force during 1991-1992. Dr. Anderson is past chairman of: the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council, the Texas Association of Public and Non-Profit Hospitals, the Texas Board of Health, the National Association of Public Hospitals, and the National Public Health and Hospital Institute, and the Texas Hospital Association. He was a member of the Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid.  He was elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1997. 

 In 1994, he received the John P. McGovern Award for Humanitarian Medicine and Lectureship from the Association of Academic Health Centers.  In October 2001, he received the American Public Health Association Award for Excellence in recognition of exceptionally meritorious contributions to the improvement of the health of the people.

In May 2001 he received the Dallas Baptist University-Oak Cliff Good Samaritan Award, and in May 2002 he received the first-ever Annual Ron J. Anderson, M.D., Healthcare Servant Leadership Award from the Alliance for Healthcare Excellence.  In 2002, he became an honorary member, University of Texas at Arlington, Chapter of Pi Alpha Alpha.  In November 2002, received the Boone Powell, Sr. Award of Excellence.  In March 2003, he received the Citizen of the Year Award from the Dallas-Fort Worth Indian Lions Club.  In April 2003 he received the J. Erik Jonsson Ethics Award from The Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility and the Ohtli Award from the Mexican Consulate.