Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Disclosure(s): AiCuris: Grant/Research Support; Biotest: Grant/Research Support; GeoVax: Grant/Research Support; Shionogi: Advisor/Consultant, Honoraria; Sound Pharmaceuticals: Grant/Research Support
Dr. Ryan Maves is a Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he serves as an attending physician in infectious diseases and critical care medicine. A graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine, he completed his internal medicine residency and fellowships in infectious diseases and critical care at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, California. Following fellowship, he served at the Naval Medical Research Unit No.6 in Lima, Peru, leading studies in antimicrobial drug resistance and vaccine development. He returned to NMCSD in 2010, serving as ID division head. In 2012, Dr Maves deployed to the NATO Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan as Director of Medical Services. After returning from deployment, he later served as vice chair of medicine and ID fellowship program director, while leading multicenter studies in COVID-19 therapeutics and epidemiology. He retired from the United States Navy with the rank of Captain in 2021 after 22 years of active-duty service and joined the faculty at Wake Forest. He lives in Winston-Salem with his wife, Robin, and their three children. He serves on the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice Working Group, the Clinical Fellows Meeting Planning Committee, and is a prior member of the Clinical Affairs Committee.