Ryan is a co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Vynca, Inc., a Silicon Valley healthcare technology company whose mission is to improve care delivery at the end of life through a care coordination platform. Ryan is also a co-founder at AWAIR, Inc., a medical device company developing a catheter-based technology to reduce complications in the intensive care unit. He is a named inventor of a wide array of medical technologies. Ryan is a Clinical Instructor of Medicine in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Stanford University, where his academic focus is in technology assessment and in teaching biomedical innovation. Prior to medical school, Ryan worked in product development at GlaxoSmithKline.