Megan Rybarczyk
PGEM Program Director; Immediate Past Chair University of Pennsylvania
Biography
Megan Rybarczyk, MD is from Muncie, Indiana and graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a major in the Biological Sciences and a minor in Anthropology. She received her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed her residency training in emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center, serving her final year as a chief resident. She completed the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the Harvard/Brigham and Women's Hospital Program, with a focus on education/curriculum development, EM program development, and emergency care systems development. Her experiences in the field of global health have involved clinical work, research, and/or education all over the world, and her research and academic interests are currently focused on EM education and training, particularly in low resource settings. She is currently the Academic Lead for the Certification Program in Emergency Medicine (CPEM) running in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Now at Penn, she is the Global EM Fellowship Director, and she is working to develop Global EM programming within the Department of Emergency Medicine and across the institution.
She has been an active member of GEMA for many years and she most recently served on the GEMA Global Engagement Committee, the WHO/ICRC BEC Course Workshop Task Force, the Fellowship Committee, and the GEMA Global EM Resources Handout Task Force. She has also been on the Business Meeting Planning Committee in the past. Additionally, she has served as Secretary to the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Consortium (GEMFC) for the last two years. Finally, she is also a member of AWAEM.
She has been an active member of GEMA for many years and she most recently served on the GEMA Global Engagement Committee, the WHO/ICRC BEC Course Workshop Task Force, the Fellowship Committee, and the GEMA Global EM Resources Handout Task Force. She has also been on the Business Meeting Planning Committee in the past. Additionally, she has served as Secretary to the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Consortium (GEMFC) for the last two years. Finally, she is also a member of AWAEM.
