Ryan McGarry is an American writer, director, cinematographer and emergency physician who directed the documentary Code Black. [1] [2] [3] Code Black is the basis for the TV series Code Black .
He also co-created and directed the Emmy nominated series Pandemic for Netflix. [4] [5]
McGarry grew up in Irvine, CA. He studied at the Pennsylvania State University where he obtained a B.A. with a major in English in 2005, [6] then attended the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine until 2009. [7] As a med student at the University of Pittsburgh, McGarry participated in a four-week emergency medicine clerkship and research rotation at LA County/USC Medical Center. [2] [8] He did his residency in Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. [9]
He worked as Clinical Instructor in Medicine at Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine of Weill Cornell Medical College. [7] He is currently a clinical assistant professor at the Keck School of Medicine at USC.