Dr. Megan Ranney has been a national public health leader throughout pandemic
Dr. Megan Ranney, emergency physician and professor at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, has become a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic, appearing on national television repeatedly to advise the public on the pandemic. Now, she brings her talents and expertise to URI as she delivers the keynote address at the College of Pharmacy’s Seminar By the Sea continuing professional development conference.
Dr. Ranney is scheduled to deliver the Friday keynote on March 19, the final day of the three-day conference that provides continuing education credit for pharmacists and nurses. The College’s flagship continuing professional development conference brings together health care professionals from around the region to discuss some of the most pressing healthcare issues of the day. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s conference, “Surviving the Tsunami of COVID-19: A Healthcare Provider’s Survival Kit,” will be delivered virtually March 17-19, using Zoom. Attendees will receive links to the website and app after registering.
Register here for Seminar By the Sea
Dr. Ranney intends to focus on the long-term consequences of the pandemic during her address, “COVID-19: What Comes Next?” The novel coronavirus has been disorienting at best, devastating at worst. It also exposed everything broken in our healthcare system. In this moderated discussion, Dr. Ranney combines her firsthand experiences as an ER doctor on the frontlines, with big picture assessments of where we go next, drawn from her national public health leadership during the pandemic. She will describe how and why we got here, how to manage the next few months, and what comes next.
Upon completion of this educational activity, learners should be able to:
- Analyze trends in the healthcare response to COVID-19 over the past year
- Identify ways to combat misinformation around COVID-19
- Describe key challenges facing the healthcare system in the pos-COVID world
Megan Ranney, MD, MPH, is an emergency physician and researcher, focusing on the intersection between digital health and injury prevention. She is director and founder of the Brown Emergency Digital Health Innovation (EDHI) program, Associate Dean of Strategy and Innovation at the Brown University School of Public Health, and the Warren Alpert Endowed professor of emergency medicine at Brown.
Dr. Ranney’s research focus is on developing, testing, and disseminating digital health interventions to prevent violence and mental illness. She has had continuous external funding from federal and foundation grants for more than a decade, with more than 120 peer-reviewed publications. She serves multiple national leadership roles, including chief research officer of AFFIRM Research, the country’s leading non-profit committed to ending the gun violence epidemic through a non-partisan public health approach; and president of the Board of GetUsPPE.org, a start-up non-profit that is delivering donated personal protective equipment to those who need it most.
She is an editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine, a Fellow of the fifth class of the Aspen Institute’s Health Innovators Fellowship Program, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.