Megan L. Ranney MD MPH is an NIH-funded injury researcher, national leader in emergency care, and a practicing emergency physician at Rhode Island’s only Level I Trauma Center. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is a core researcher in the Injury Prevention Center of Rhode Island Hospital. She has a secondary appointment in the Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown School of Public Health. She is also the Director and Founder of the Brown Emergency Digital Health Innovation program (www.brownedhi.org), as well as Director of Special Projects in the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Ranney’s career focus is on developing, testing, and disseminating digital health interventions for at-risk emergency department patients, focusing on those with a history of violence exposure and mental illness. She a history of research and national leadership on violence prevention, particularly firearm violence. She has worked with the American Medical Association, American Bar Association, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office, among others, to develop evidence-based clinical approaches to firearm injury prevention.

She holds numerous national positions, including currently serving as Chief Research Officer of the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM), as an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), and as an editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine. Prior leadership roles include chairing the American College of Emergency Physician’s (ACEP) Technical Advisory Group on Firearm Injury; the ACEP Trauma and Injury Prevention Section; and the SAEM Research Committee and Public Health Interest Group. She has received national and local awards for her research, innovation, and community service.

Dr. Ranney graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts (summa) in History of Science.  She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cote d’Ivoire prior to attending medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in NYC.  She graduated with AOA status and received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award on graduation. She completed internship, residency, and chief residency in Emergency Medicine, as well as a fellowship in Injury Prevention Research and a Master of Public Health, at Brown University.