Her areas of clinical expertise include pediatric emergency medicine. After receiving a medical degree with honors from the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Dr. Ryan trained in pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where she held a faculty position prior to her appointment as an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Ryan’s research interests include injury epidemiology, injury prevention and child health disparities.She received a K23 Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of bone health in fractures in African-American children.