Ryan Brandon Hunter
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Ryan Brandon Hunter
Assistant Professor
Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Pediatrics - Critical Care
Baylor College of Medicine
Education
- MD from University of Virginia School of Medicine
- Charlottesville
- BA from University of Virginia
- Charlottesville
Certifications
- PALS
- AHA
- BLS
- AHA
- ACLS
- AHA
- ATLS
- ACOS
- Lean Six Sigma White Belt Institutional Certification
- Boston Children's Hospital
- 2017 Lean Six Sigma White Belt Institutional Certification, Boston Children’s Hospital.
Honors & Awards
- Hematology, Cardiology, Microbiology, Immune System Academic Excellence Award
- 2012
- University of Virginia School of Medicine
- BCRP Handbook
- Contributing author to sections of Emergency Medicine, Toxicology, and Pediatric Critical Care.
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Grant Judge
- Alongside industry and venture capital partners, judged pediatric device competition entrants and awarded grants up to $50,000 in development funding.
- Boston Pediatric Device Consortium
- Medical Consultant
- 2014-2016, Advised company regarding development of clinical care software development.
- Dorsata
- Project Lead
- 2016 – 2018 , Led team of computer scientists, physicians, and business partners in digitizing the hospital’s antibiogram and created a central antibiotic stewardship reference app. Project won in-kind business and development support from Harvard Business School startup competition. Project resulted in improved antibiotic stewardship among frontline providers.
- Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator
- Member
- 2019, Developing healthcare innovation education opportunities for high-level academic researchers at CHOP.
- CHOP-Wharton Collaborative
- Ad Hoc Analyst, Office of Technology Transfer
- 2019-2020, Performed prior art searches and market analyses of medical innovation disclosures.
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Medical Advisor
- 2020-2021, Providing medical advising to a group developing an innovation education platform for hospital systems.
- Innocation
- Website Content Developer
- 2020-2021, Primary content developer in creation of an independent, centralized, website to connect and educate a broad range of stakeholders interested in pediatric device development.
- Philadelphia Pediatric Device Consortium
- Student Fellow
- 2020- Worked with a team of business and clinical innovators to develop a proof-of-concept plan to accelerate scientific development and commercialization of novel hydrocephalus treatment device in children and adults.
- Quod Erat Demonstrandum Proof-of-Concept Program, Science Center
- Beta Testing Group
- 2021, Beta Testing Group. Pedi Crisis App 2.1 Society for Pediatric Anesthesia.
- Society for Pediatric Anesthesia
- Board Member
- 2021- Present, Group lead, Pediatric Advisory Council. Advised regarding projects designed to bridge the digital health gap in pediatrics.
- Institute for Pediatric Innovation, Boston, MA
- Member
- 2021- Present, Consortium with $1.5M annual budget from the FDA. Advised early-stage start-up pediatric medical device companies regarding clinical and regulatory process to accelerate inventions. Awarded grant funding.
- Southwest Pediatric Device Consortium
- Lead Advisor
- 2021- Present, Served as lead advisor in development of a functional prototype for a novel noninvasive endotracheal tube position localizer
- Texas A&M Biomedical Engineering Capstone
- Clinical Trialist
- 2021- Present, Served as PI and primary advisor for several devices, see Research and Bibliography for detail
- Texas Children's Hospital
- Project Participant
- 2016-2018, Helped design, present, and propagate Asthma Action Plan initiative to improve patient adherence to home medications.
- Boston Children's Hospital Clinical Informatics
- Resident Project Lead
- 2017-2018, "Just a Squeeze to Prevent VTEs”
- Boston Children's Hospital QI Initiative
- Fellow Representative
- 2018-2021, rounding script and read back
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia PICU QI Initiative
- Fellow Representative
- 2019, Diabetes Insipidus Pathway, Published online at https://www.chop.edu/clinical-pathway/central-diabetes-insipidus-clinical-pathway
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia PICU
- Fellow Representative
- 2020-2021, Ingestion Pathway
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia PICU
- Instructor
- 2009-2011
- Exam Krackers MCAT Review
- Editor-In-Chief
- 2014-2015, Mulholland Report Clerkship Review, Editor-In-Chief
- University of Virginia School of Medicine
- Pre-Clerkship Simulation Course Instructor
- 2016-2018
- Boston Children's Hospital Simulation Center
- Instructor and Facilitator
- 2018-2021, Resident PICU Simulation and Mock Code Events
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Professional Statement
Dr. Hunter is committed to high-quality and compassionate care for patients and their families. Clinically he is passionate about the application of point of care ultrasound. His research interests focus on medical device and digital health development, and he is most interested in how academic medical centers can effectively interact with industry to encourage innovation in pediatrics and move the field forward.Websites
Contributing author to questions and explanations for Step 1-3 board review.
Contributing author and senior reviewer of questions and explanations for Pediatric Board Review questions and answers.
Professional Development
- Diamond Blacfan Anemia
- Seminar (Participant, 2016)
- Sponsor: Boston Children's Hosptial
- Diamond Blackfan Anemia, Senior Rounds, Boston Children’s Hospital
- Diagnosis and Management of Posterior Reversible Leukoencephalopathy
- Seminar (Participant, 2017)
- Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital
- Diagnosis and Management of Posterior Reversible Leukencephalopathy, Senior Rounds, Boston Children’s Hospital
- Viral Encephalitis Management and Complications
- Seminar (Participant, 2017)
- Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital
- Viral Encephalitis Management and Complications, Senior Rounds, Boston Children’s Hospital
- ARDS and Sepsis – Balancing Fluid Management with Competing Interests
- Conference (Participant, 2018)
- Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital
- ARDS and Sepsis – Balancing Fluid Management with Competing Interests, Residency-Wide Noon Conference, Boston Children’s Hospital
- The Ins and Outs of Enteral Access
- Seminar (Participant, 2018)
- Sponsor: Boston Medical Center
- The Ins and Outs of Enteral Access, Senior Rounds, Boston Medical Center
- Approach to Hypoglycemia in the PICU
- Conference (Participant, 2018)
- Sponsor: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Case Conference, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Post-Cardiac Arrest Care
- Seminar (Participant, 2019)
- Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Post-Cardiac Arrest Care, Monthly Resident Lecture, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Sepsis and Septic Shock
- Seminar (Participant, 2019)
- Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Sepsis and Septic Shock, Monthly Resident Lecture, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- PICU Procedures
- Seminar (Participant, 2019)
- Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- 2019-2021, PICU Procedures, Monthly Resident Lecture
- Mechanical Ventilation and ABG Interpretation
- Seminar (Participant, 2019)
- Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- 2019-2021, Mechanical Ventilation and ABG Interpretation, Monthly Resident Lecture
- Airway Skills Workshop
- Workshop (Participant, 2019)
- Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- 2019-2021, Airway Still Workshop, Monthly Resident Lecture
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Increased Intracranial Pressure
- Seminar (Participant, 2019)
- Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- 2019-2021, Traumatic Brain Injury and Increased Intracranial Pressure, Monthly Resident Lecture
- Anterior Mediastinal Mass Management
- Conference (Participant, 2019)
- Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Critical Care Case Conference
- VV ECMO and Ventilator Management with Severe Air Leak Syndrome
- Conference (Participant, 2019)
- Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Critical Case Care Conference
- ARDS and use of the VDR Ventilator
- Conference (Participant, 2019)
- Sponsor: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Critical Care Case Conference
- Cardiac Arrest Case Review Conference
- Conference (Participant, 2019)
- Sponsor: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Critical Care Case Conference
- Evaluating the Practice of Repositioning Endotracheal Tubes in Neonates and Children Based on Radiographic Location
- Course (Participant, 2019)
- Sponsor: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Critical Care Journal Club
- Defining Benefit Threshold for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Children with Sepsis
- Course (Participant, 2020)
- Sponsor: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Critical Care Journal Club
- Supervised Machine Learning Applied to Automate Flash and Prolonged Capillary Refill Detection by Pulse Oximetry
- Conference (Participant, 2018)
- Sponsor: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- 2018-2020, Research Conference
- Introduction to Mechanical Ventilation
- Seminar (Participant, 2021)
- Sponsor: Texas Children's Hospital
- Resident Lecture
Selected Publications
- Hunter RB, Winston FK, Dehel P, Oh K, Nicklas J, Hartung H "SPRINTing to Innovation: A Large Academic Medical Center’s Strategic Approach to Discovering its Untapped Innovation Potential." 2020 Nov;
- Hunter RB, Jiang S, Nishisaki A, Nickel A, Napolitano N, Shinozaki K, Li T, Saeki K, Becker L, Nadkarni V, Masino A. "Supervised Machine Learning Applied to Automate Abnormal Capillary Refill Detection by Pulse Oximetry." 2020 Oct;
- Yarahuan J, Hunter RB, Nadar D, Gujral N, Fine A, Flett K "Improving Antibiogram Accessibility and Empiric Antibiotic Selection with the Creation of Institutional Digital Antibiogram Tool." 2019;
Projects
- Diagnosis and Management of Central Diabetes Insipidus in Critically Ill Children Varies Among Pediatric Providers
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (12/2020 - present)
- Data collected, manuscript in process with planned submission to Pediatric Critical Care Medicine,
- Improving Antibiogram Accessibility and Empiric Antibiotic Selection with the Creation of Institutional Digital Antibiogram Tool
- (10/2020 - present)
- Preparing submission to Applied Clinical Informatics
- Evaluation of Hemodynamic Effects and Outcomes of the LUCAS Chest Compressor in a Pediatric Swine Model
- Currently collecting primary data for analysis.
Memberships
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Academy Leader
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Co-Leader
- Society of Critical Care Medicine
- Member
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Member
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Member
Funding
- Boppli Study Unrestricted funding from PyrAmes
- 01/2022
Languages
Spanish
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