Ryan Flanagan M.D.

Education

B.S. Civil Engineering - University of Illinois
M.D. Uniformed Services University

Biography

Dr. Flanagan, the son of an Army Infantry Officer, was born in an Army Hospital in Nuremburg Germany. He began a career in the health professions working in EMS while completing his Civil Engineering degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He obtained his Medical Degree from the Uniformed Services University before completing a Pediatric Residency at Madigan Army Medical Center and a Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and American College of Cardiology. He established the first Pediatric Subspecialty Clinic at Fort Bragg while serving as the Womack AMC Chief of Continuing Medical Education, GMEC Ombudsman, and Assistant Chief of Pediatrics. In 2017 he assumed his current role as a Pediatric Cardiologist and Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Residency Training Program at Tripler Army Medical Center where he also served as the Pediatric Residency Program Director from 2019 – 2023. In 2023 he was reassigned to Landstuhl Army Medical Center as the Pediatric Department Chair. He currently resides in Germany with his wife Dr. Emily Flanagan and their two children.

Career Highlights: Positions, Projects, Deployements, Awards and Additional Publications

Pediatric Residency Program Director, Tripler Army Medical Center

Associate Pediatric Residency Program Director, Tripler Army Medical Center

Assistant Chief of Pediatrics, Womack Army Medical Center

Representative Bibliography

Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Cardiac Findings in Young Persons Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 2025 Apr.

Estimating the effect of COVID-19 vaccination and infection variant on post-COVID-19 venous thrombosis or embolism risk. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2024 Sep

Physiologic measurements of cognitive load in clinical reasoning. Diagnosis. 2024 Jan

Decreased Self-reported Physical Fitness Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection and the Impact of Vaccine Boosters in a Cohort Study. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2023 Nov

The effect of geographic origin & destination on congenital heart disease outcomes: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Card Dis. 2023 Feb

Left ventricular myocardial performance index change for detection of acute cellular rejection in pediatric heart transplantation. Pediatric Transplantation. 2013Dec

Cardiac Physiology. Handbook of Pediatric Cardiovascular Drugs (2nd Edition). Springer Publishing 2013.

Vasodilators. Handbook of Pediatric Cardiovascular Drugs (2nd Edition). Springer Publishing 2013.

Ionotropics, Lusitropics, Vasodilators, and Vasoconstrictors. Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, and Intensive Care. Springer Publishing Jul 2013.