Profiles

Ryan A. Pedigo, MD, MHPE completed emergency medicine residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, receiving the Clinical Excellence Award from EMRA, was one of the program's chief residents, and was the team leader for the winning SimWars team at ACEP in 2014. He currently is full-time faculty and the residency program director at Harbor and also chairs or co-chairs multiple courses at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is a co-chair for the ACGME faculty development program at UCLA. He completed a two-year faculty development medical education fellowship at UCLA, the intensive one-month Stanford Faculty Development Center for Medical Teachers instructor course, the Longitudinal Program for Curriculum Development through Johns Hopkins University, and most recently was selected to be a participant in a 2-year leadership development program through the California Health Care Foundation. He received a career development grant from SAEM and received a Master of Health Professions Education degree in 2021 from the University of Michigan.

He has been nationally recognized for excellence in education, winning multiple local, regional, and national awards. These include the Kaiser-Permanente Award for Excellence in Teaching at UCLA (2023), Outstanding Peer Reviewer Award for Academic Emergency Medicine E&T (2018-2022), Faculty Teaching Excellence award from EMRA (2018), the National Emergency Medicine Junior Faculty Teaching Award from ACEP (2018), the Faculty Teaching Award from CORD (2018), Young Educator of the Year Award from SAEM/CDEM (2017), as well as other awards. He has helped write multiple medical review books and edited or authored over 300 textbook chapters.