SIENNA, TX, October 27, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marcqwon Daywalker, MD, DipABLM, has been recognized for outstanding achievement in healthcare, business, and civic organizations.

Dr. Marcqwon Daywalker is a distinguished physician, healthcare executive, faculty educator, consultant, and keynote speaker recognized for his expertise in clinical leadership, healthcare administration, regulatory compliance, organizational transformation, and deep faith. Dr. Daywalker has served in many capacities ranging from working as a Chief Medical Officer (CMO), an Executive Vice President (EVP) of Clinical Services, Chief Health Equity & Wellness Officer, Director of Health and Wellbeing as well as a primary care physician within the community health center landscape. Given his wide range of knowledge, skills, and expertise Dr. Daywalker has been able to link his spiritual gifts from being called to care; adding his sensibilities of deep passion into a uniformed purpose. Dr. Daywalker credits God for both the opportunities to serve and his ability to excel in the diversity of roles entrusted to him throughout his illustrious career thus far; including his ability to provide strategic planning, executive oversight of multidisciplinary clinical operations, human performance, patient safety, quality improvement, and strategic healthcare initiatives.

Dr. Daywalker served as the chief medical officer and executive vice president of clinical services at Avenue 360 Health and Wellness in Houston, Texas from 2024 to 2026. In his leadership role as chief medical officer, he oversaw clinical safety and quality practices for alignment with Joint Commission standards, met Human Resources Services Administration (HRSA) Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) service area competition accreditation standards, led HRSA uniform data system reporting compliance, implemented Ryan White grant management quality improvement initiatives, and approved credentialing and privileging for all providers while leading multiple departments across the company towards value-based care transformation, including primary care (adult medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology), HIV care, behavioral medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, population health, and overall agency quality.

As executive vice president of clinical services, Dr. Daywalker was also responsible for the clinical business arm of the organization and development of individual clinical department Entrepreneurial Operating System scorecards. He worked closely with operations and finance on matters such as increasing patient care coordination through the establishment of multiple Memorandum of Understandings with St. Joseph Medical Center enhancing the delivery of client services and provider hiring through cross sector collaboration, advanced revenue cycle management by leading the agency to an over 90% forty-eight hour note closure percentage rate, increased patient penetration and dual usership through integrating oral health with other clinical services, enhancing organizational outreach during the Texas measles outbreak through partnership with the International Medical Corps and interdisciplinary supervision of seven directors across clinical departments. As the executive sponsor for all agencywide grants, he also contributed to strategic grant-writing initiatives that secured funding amid shifting federal priorities. During this period of uncertainty, the organization maintained workforce stability without a reduction in force. Furthermore, within this role Dr. Daywalker trained clinical providers in a trauma-informed approach to patient centered self management goals in alignment with Joint Commission's primary care medical home model. He additionally partnered with the human resources department in spearheading its workforce "Wellness vs. Well-Being" series to help mitigate burnout and advance overall employee morale. As community health centers serve as the nation's public health safety net leading nonprofit healthcare organizations primarily serving uninsured or underinsured individuals Dr. Daywalker understands the importance of supporting the workforce who provide essential clinical and pharmacy services, behavioral health support, dental services and much more for the medically underserved.

In addition to executive responsibilities from 2023-2026, Dr. Daywalker has been a faculty member and organizational coach for CHCs for the National Network for Oral Health Access, providing guidance to organizations on integrating best practices into clinical settings. He has contributed to the Texas Association of Community Health Centers (TACHC) as a clinical advisory committee member, helping to shape policies that impact community health centers statewide. He has also held a leadership position with the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved as chairperson of the justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) committee. Also, in the summer of 2026, during national Men's health month Dr. Daywalker was invited by Houston's City of Refuge Church and pastor to address mental health stigma through supporting integration of spirituality into health care as both an expert and community panelist during the "Barriers to Care: Trust, Stigma, and System Inequities" session. Within the same summer, the Houston Health Department being able to recruit medical experts within the Texas Medical Center, which stands as the largest medical center in the world, selected Dr. Daywalker as the medical expert to participate in their first annual Men's Health Conference. Dr. Daywalker within the conference received the honor to serve as the health department's clinical expert panelist within their forum on "The State of Men's Health".

Prior to joining Avenue 360, Dr. Daywalker spent five years at AccessHealth Community Health Center in Richmond, Texas. From 2022 to 2024, he excelled as chief health equity and wellness officer, where he advanced health equity initiatives for both patients and staff through lifestyle medicine interventions including integrated lifestyle medicine shared medical appointments for patients and the lifestyle medicine Full Plate Living Program for staff. He also served as the AccessHealth team lead in partnership with the TACHC collaborative with the National Association of Community Health Centers, alongside the Fenway Institute, and the National Healthcare for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) to take part in "The Addressing Identity-Based Disparities in Opioid Prescribing, Substance Use Treatment, and Linkage to Care Project". Before ascending into these roles, he served as the director of health and well-being from 2020 to 2022 leading AccessHealth through its agencywide trauma-informed organizational transformation through the 'train the trainer" model receiving agency certification within three years. Prior to this role as a TACHC trauma-informed organizational trainer for the agency he began his tenure at AccessHealth as a family medicine physician in 2019.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Daywalker completed a three-year family practice residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch, gaining valuable experience in integrative medicine, practice management and patient-centered training. In honor of his exemplary service throughout this time, he was recognized with the Alice Anne O'Donnell MD Award for Interprofessional Collaboration and the Perfect Practice Partner Award in 2019.

From 2014 to 2016, while attending Morehouse School of Medicine, a medical school known for housing the National Center for Primary Care and training providers to become PCPs serving medically underserved populations Dr. Daywalker also excelled as a diverse medical research scholar with National Medical Fellowships (NMF) Inc. As an NMF scholar he contributed to research initiatives aimed at improving healthcare outcomes for families experiencing homelessness as well as youth violence prevention. He also tutored students in the Department of Medical Education at Morehouse School of Medicine from 2013 to 2016, guiding them through multiple Fundamentals of Medicine courses as well as faculty development programs.

Also in 2013, Dr. Daywalker gained valuable experience as a primary care leadership program researcher with National Medical Fellowships. Making a significant impact during his initial tenure, he overhauled the Diabetes Education Program at St. John's Well Child & Family Center by implementing needs assessment services and interventions that included patient education, fitness regimens and diabetic consultations. In 2015, he worked within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention multidimensional team model as a consultation program abstractionist within their National Center for Emerging Infections and Zoonotic Diseases National Botulism which published Features of Foodborne and Wound Botulism: A Systematic Review of the Literature in 2018.

Throughout every stage of his career, Dr. Daywalker has been committed to enhancing trauma-informed care practices through system-wide transformation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he proposed that TACHC trauma-informed approaches be extended not only to patients but also staff members at his agency when the TACHC trauma-informed care research cohort program itself was being discontinued due to pandemic-related challenges across the state of Texas. In addition to a trauma-informed approach, he also leveraged the psychological capital enhancement to increase overall staff wellbeing thus anchoring workforce development in increasing hope, self-efficacy, resilience, and optimism (H.E.R.O.) building. The systematizing of these initiatives in the CDC's National Institute of Safety and Health Total Worker Health's framework led to improved employee well-being and reduced burnout, making his agency the only one among 73 community health centers in Texas to achieve these outcomes during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. His expertise in trauma-informed care has resulted in opportunities to consult with other organizations, present at conferences and teach about these practices across healthcare and business settings.

Dr. Daywalker has also contributed significantly to research publications and projects focused on healthcare improvement strategies. His work leading to reduced burnout provided for national case study to serve as the subject of the influential "A Guide to Measuring and Addressing Burnout at Your Organization During Crisis," which was published by the National Health Service Corps in 2024. He also served as a medical peer review author on evidence-based practices in 2020. Furthermore, during his college years, he coauthored research on aquaporin expression that was presented at the Eighth International Congress of Comparative Physiology Biochemistry.

Dr. Daywalker is also a highly sought after keynote speaker, delivering presentations across the country on healthcare transformation, resilience, and health equity. Ranging from keynote topics on "Transforming Theory into Policy & Practice: Evolutions in Healthcare" at the Michigan Primary Care Association annual conference in 2025, "Reclaiming Humanity in Healthcare" at Zufall Health Community Health Center annual conference in 2024, "Transformational Health Equity" at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Conference in 2023, and "A Systems Level Innovation: Integrating Well-being into CHCs for the Texas Association of Community Health Centers in 2021. He has led multiple webinars the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) through HRSA ranging from "Measuring Burnout at the Organizational Level", "Webinar for MD and DO Medical Students and Physicians: NHSC Scholarships & Loan Repayment", and "Grand Rounds: Integrating Reciprocity into Clinician Wellbeing and Self-Care." He has also led multiple workshops on topics such as "Workforce Resilience and Transformation: Getting Started in Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion" at the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved conference in 2022 and "Refilling Our Cups: Improvements in Community Health Center Staff Well-Being Following Total Worker Health Systems-level Interventions" at the American Occupation Health Conference in 2022.

Dr. Daywalker's professional affiliations further reflect his dedication to advancing scholarship, healthcare access, and high-quality service for underserved communities . He has been an active member of Alpha Phil Alpha Fraternity Incorporated, the National Health Service Corps, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and the Texas Association for Community Health Centers.

Hailing from an equally accomplished academic background, Dr. Daywalker began his higher education with a Bachelor of Science in biology receiving magna cum laude honors from Georgia Southern University in 2011. He went on to earn a Doctor of Medicine from Morehouse School of Medicine in 2016 receiving the Primary Care Award for his graduating class before completing a residency program in family medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch with an additional focus on integrative medicine completing the virtual Andrew Weil Integrative Medicine certification program provided by the University of Arizona. An exemplary student both inside and outside the classroom, he was honored with the Randolph S. Gunter Leaders Award from Georgia Southern in 2011 as well as the 40 under 40 distinguished alumni recognition from his alma mater.

Dedicated to the ideals of continuous learning, Dr. Daywalker has been certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine, a certified principal investigator through National Medical Fellowships to advance equity based research and is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration in business administration and management.

Reflecting on his storied journey thus far, Dr. Daywalker attributes much of his success to foundational influences from his modest upbringing in his rural hometown of Vidalia, Georgia leading to his professional humility today. Also having to develop a practice of continual resilience in overcoming adverse childhood experiences taught him the value of having a persistent will. Raised by a single mother whose perseverance inspired him deeply, he also credits his grandfather's spiritual influence and the additional 'team' of women (aunts and grandmother) for shaping his sense of empathy and commitment to service. Lastly, he credits his joyful step father for helping him to create what now has become a responsive calm when met with crisis and to find the silver lining in all circumstances. These values have anchored his decision-making throughout his career, particularly during challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic motivating him to continue the pursuit of excellence in clinical care, providing support for his colleagues, and to keep the agency operational to serve as a pillar within the community as medical and mental health needs increased as a result of the pandemic.

Beyond his professional roles, Dr. Daywalker is involved with several civic-minded organizations and initiatives dedicated to advancing public health education and supporting vulnerable populations. He volunteered as a medical missionary with Project Medishare for Haiti in 2013 and has served on Georgia Southern University's young alumni board since 2020 providing mentorship and advancement opportunities for both students as well as the university.

Dedicated to helping and educating others through everything he does, over the years Dr. Daywalker has presented on women's health topics for The Women's Fund for Health Education & Resiliency and has addressed sexual health issues for children members through Jack and Jill of America Inc. His volunteer work includes supporting Parks Youth Ranch summer programs, creating community health programs for families experiencing homelessness within a homeless shelter, providing mental health education through local church events as well as the Houston Apartment Association and assisting with men's health advancement initiatives at the Houston Health Department.

Dr. Daywalker's achievements and remarkable dedication have seen him recognized with several accolades over a decade. He completed his honorary primary care physician selection becoming a National Health Service Corps alumnus in 2022. He received the Health Equity Achieved through Lifestyle Medicine Scholarship from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine that same year and was selected as a primary care leadership scholar by the General Electric Foundation in 2013. His professional commitment and sustained excellence led to his being recognized during Black History Month by the Network of Black Alumni, his alma mater being selected as a 28 Days of Black History Awardee in 2026. Among the many recognitions he has received throughout his life, being voted "Most Likely to Succeed" by his high school peers remains especially meaningful due to its affirmation from those who knew him best during his formative years.

Outside of his professional and civic commitments, Dr. Daywalker enjoys attending church, playing chess, exercising and exploring nature through outdoor adventures. Also a proud father and devoted family man, he cherishes spending quality time with his 6-year-old son Rexton.

Looking toward the future with determination, Dr. Daywalker remains dedicated to advancing integrated, trauma-informed, equity centered models of care that address not only physical, mental, and behavioral needs, but also the spiritual health needs— particularly among medically underserved individuals and families — while continuing his own personal growth through new challenges within the ever-evolving healthcare, business, and civic engagement landscapes.

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