Aspiring Docs Diaries

Meet the author:

Brienne Ryan

Med Student

Brienne (Hoak) Ryan grew up in Hamburg, NY, the youngest of seven children to a single mother. She completed her undergraduate degree at Syracuse University, followed by a research-oriented Master’s Degree through Roswell Park Cancer Institute in biomedical sciences. After completing the AMSNY post-baccalaureate program, she was accepted to the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences for the class of 2019. Wife, dog-lover, and avid art history buff, Brienne feels great privilege to have realized her childhood dream of becoming a physician.

Stories by Brienne

Sep 6, 2016

Little Girl Blue

Brienne Ryan

She lay there, small and seemingly lifeless. Everything surrounding her is industrial—wires and tubes connecting this way and that—paralleling the […] Read More

Mar 8, 2016

Humanity in Medicine

Brienne Ryan

Every week, for two hours, I am granted reprieve from the hard sciences and voluminous textbooks traditionally associated with the […] Read More

Aug 4, 2015

From Bedside to Post-it Note

Brienne Ryan

For some physicians, at what point in their career does a transition occur from considering their participation in patient care […] Read More