Ryan C. Gibbons, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FAIUM

Ryan C. Gibbons, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FAIUM is a proud graduate of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine (LKSOM) at Temple University where he completed his Emergency Medicine (EM) residency, serving as chief resident, followed by an Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography (AEMUS) fellowship at Temple as well. Currently, Dr Gibbons is an Associate Professor of EM and the Director of Ultrasound in Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) and was appointed the inaugural John M. Daly, MD, & Measey Foundation Endowed Professor in Medical Education Innovation at LKSOM for developing and implementing a 4-year longitudinal point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum. Additionally, Ryan serves as the AEMUS fellowship director and the Associate Director of the Division of Emergency Ultrasound in the Department of EM. As associate director, Ryan has been instrumental in the success of the emergency ultrasound division, expanding the AEMUS fellowship and starting an IM POCUS fellowship as well. Dr Gibbons has won numerous medical student and resident teaching awards demonstrating his passion for POCUS and education.

Dr Gibbons has published over fifty peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters. As a leading POCUS expert, he has given more than one hundred regional, national, and international POCUS presentations and educational workshops. Ryan serves as a peer reviewer for Annals of Emergency Medicine and the Journal of Emergency Medicine (JEM), as well as an ultrasound section editor for the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (WJEM). His research has been highlighted by leading emergency medicine journals and ultrasound outlets, including AEM, JEM, WJEM, EM-RAP, the Ultrasound GEL podcast, Rebel Cast, Journal Feed, Aunt Minnie, Medical Research, and MedPage Today. Over the last two years, Dr Gibbons has received successive research awards from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s (SAEM) Academy of Emergency Ultrasound (AEUS). Ryan is active within numerous national organizations as well. He founded and served as the first chair of the Emergency Ultrasound Section (EUS) of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) and as the secretary for the EUS of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). Likewise, he is a passionate member of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), having served as the secretary and vice chair of the Ultrasound in Medical Education community and, presently, as the secretary of the Point-of-Care Ultrasound Community as well as the 2023 Beryl Benacerraf fellow for the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

Prior to his EM training, Ryan served on active duty in the United States Navy where he completed his transitional year internship at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth followed by a tour on the USS NASHVILLE (LPD-13) as the medical department head and then with Fleet Aire Reconnaissance Squadron 4 (VQ-4) as the squadron flight surgeon. He is currently in the process of returning to the United States Navy reserves as an Emergency Medicine physician.