TCU School of Medicine Dean Named One of Fort Worth’s Most Influential People


Fort Worth Inc. Magazine selected Founding Dean Stuart D. Flynn, M.D., as one of its health care and life sciences honorees.

By Prescotte Stokes III

FORT WORTHTCU School of Medicine’s Founding Dean Stuart D. Flynn, M.D., was selected as one of Fort Worth Inc.’s Top 400 for 2022.

Since 2018, Fort Worth Inc. has compiled a list of 400 of the most influential people in Fort Worth. The individuals selected span arts and leisure, banking and finance, economic development, education, government, health care and life sciences, industry nonprofits and foundations, philanthropy, professional services, real estate, religion, sports and transportation.

Since arriving in Fort Worth in 2016, Dean Flynn was previously named as one of Fort Worth Inc.’s most influential people in 2020 and 2021.

Fort Worth Inc. named Fort Worth icon Opal Lee as the Person of the Year at an event on May 19 at the Fort Worth Club. Lee has been a guest on TCU School of Medicine’s award-winning FWMD Live Chat.

Other leaders at TCU and TCU School of Medicine were also recognized as members of the Fort Worth Inc.’s Top 400 of 2022:

  • Victor J. Boschini, Jr., TCU Chancellor
  • Daniel Pullin, Dean, TCU Neeley School of Business
  • Michael Sherrod, TCU Neeley School of Business, William M. Dickey Entrepreneur in Residence
  • Rodney D’Souza, TCU Neeley School of Business, Managing Director Neeley Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • Richard Johnston, CEO, Chief Physician Officer USMD Health System and Professor at the TCU School of Medicine