Professor of Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Dr. Ryan Maves is a Professor of Medicine at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he serves as an attending physician in infectious diseases and critical care medicine. A graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine, he completed his internal medicine residency and fellowships in infectious diseases and critical care at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, California. Following fellowship, he served at the Naval Medical Research Unit No.6 in Lima, Peru, leading studies in antimicrobial drug resistance and vaccine development. He returned to NMCSD in 2010, serving as ID division head. In 2012, Dr Maves deployed to the NATO Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan as Director of Medical Services. After returning from deployment, he later served as vice chair of medicine and ID fellowship program director, while leading multicenter studies in COVID-19 therapeutics and epidemiology. He retired from the United States Navy with the rank of Captain in 2021 after 22 years of active-duty service and joined the faculty at Wake Forest. He is the medical director of the Wake Forest transplant infectious diseases program and conducts research into severe respiratory and viral infections in high-risk patients.