Rita M. Ryan, MD, received her undergraduate degree in Mathematical Science from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her medical degree and pediatric residency training at SUNY Upstate in Syracuse, NY, and her neonatology fellowship training at Cincinnati Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. She was on the faculty and was the director of the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program at the University of Rochester and University at Buffalo, where she was chief of the Division of Neonatology. She has also served as the chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina. Currently, she is a faculty member at the Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital and Case Western Reserve University. She is nationally and internationally recognized for her expertise in neonatal lung disease and hyperoxia. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Perinatology and Pediatric Pulmonology.