Dr. Morgan is a graduate of Binghamton University of the State University of New York, where he earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Cell and Molecular Biology. He earned his MD from New York University School of Medicine and a Master’s in Translational Research from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed pediatrics residency training at Columbia University/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, followed by pediatric critical care medicine fellowship training at CHOP.

Dr. Morgan is currently an assistant professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and an attending physician in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at CHOP.

Dr. Morgan’s research focus is on pediatric cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, with an emphasis on cardiac arrest physiology and the tailoring of resuscitation therapies to individual patients. He conducts both translational laboratory and clinical studies in pediatric resuscitation, and is involved in cardiac arrest quality improvement at the local and national levels.

BS, Binghamton University (Cell and Molecular Biology), State University of New York, 2006

MD, New York University School of Medicine, 2010

Residency, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center (Pediatrics), 2013

Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Pediatric Critical Care Medicine), 2016

MTR, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Translational Research), 2017

Attending Physician, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Assistant Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care

• American Academy of Pediatrics, 2009-
• Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2013-
• University of Pennsylvania Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, 2015-
• American Heart Association, 2015-
• American Thoracic Society, 2015-
• AHA Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee Pediatric Emphasis Group, 2018-
• AHA Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee Systems of Care Subcommittee, 2018-
• Penn Cardiovascular Institute, 2019-

• Critical Care Medicine Teacher of the Year Award, 2019
• Early Career Faculty Teaching Honor Roll, 2018, 2020, 2021
• Pediatrics Section Travel Grant, Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2016
• Star Research Achievement Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2016
• Institute of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania, 2015
• Physician of the Year Award, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NY-Presbyterian, 2011
• Rosa Lee Nemir Award for Excellence in Pediatrics, NYU School of Medicine, 2010
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 2009
• American Heart Association Young Investigator Award, 2020
• 40 Under 40 Award, Citizen CPR Foundation, 2021

• Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Survival and Neurologic Outcomes (PiCASO)
• NIH NHLBI
• 2019-2024
• The objectives of this grant are: 1) to evaluate the survival effect of two different blood pressure targets during hemodynamic-directed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (HD-CPR); 2) to determine the relationship between these hemodynamic-directed strategies on cerebral blood flow and oxygenation; 3) to validate the use of noninvasive measures of these cerebral metrics during pediatric cardiac arrest; 4) to elucidate molecular mechanisms that may contribute to long-term cognitive deficits after pediatric cardiac arrest; and 5) to test a promising mitochondria-directed therapy to preserve cellular energy production.
• PI: Todd J. Kilbaugh

• Validation of Physiologic CPR Quality Using Non-invasive Waveform Analytics (CPR-NOVA)
• NIH NHLBI
• 2019-2022
• The objective of this ancillary R01 is to leverage the unique hemodynamic waveform database of the parent R01 clinical trial to validate non-invasive physiologic CPR quality monitors to improve CPR quality and outcomes of children who suffer cardiac arrests.
• Co-PIs: Robert M. Sutton, Robert A. Berg
• Pulmonary Hypertension-Associated Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
• NIH NHLBI
• 2020-2025
• The scientific objectives of this grant are to delineate the epidemiology of pulmonary hypertension-associated pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest and to quantify the physiologic effects of pulmonary hypertension and of inhaled nitric oxide treatment during CPR through two prospective observational cohort studies.
• PI: Ryan W. Morgan