Ryan Maves MD FCCM, FCCP, FIDSA

Critical Care Medicine, Infectious Disease

Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Summary

Dr. Ryan Maves is an infectious disease and critical care specialist in Winston-Salem, NC, and is affiliated with Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and High Point Medical Center. He is a professor of medicine and anesthesiology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, where he serves as an attending intensivist and medical director of the transplant/oncology infectious diseases program. He received his medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine. He served for 22 years on active duty in the United States Navy, with wartime deployments to the North Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Afghanistan, as well as overseas service in Latin America conducting vaccine research, and retiring with the rank of Captain (O-6) in 2021.

2025 SCCM Presidential Citation Society of Critical Care Medicine, 2025
2025 Distinguished CHEST Educator American College of Chest Physicians, 2025
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Education Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2025

PubMed

Books/Book Chapters

Intensive Care Medicine
Chapter: Planning and Organization for Emergency Mass Critical Care
Page 1222 - 1229Maves RC, King MAEditors: C.M. Lilly, R.S. Irwin, W.A. Boyle.Wolters Kluwer, Philadelphia, PAEdition 9th,2024
Intensive Care Medicine
Chapter: Critical Care Consequences of Weapons (or Agents) of Mass Destruction - Biological Agents of Mass Destruction
Page 1249 - 1272Maves RC, Gaglani BJ, Volk CG, David KLEditors: C.M. Lilly, R.S. Irwin, W.A. Boyle.Wolters Kluwer, Philadelphia, PAEdition 9th,2024
Expeditionary Surgery at Sea: A Practical Approach
Chapter: Infectious Diseases and the Deployed Surgeon
Matthew J. Carr, Ryan C. MavesEditors: Matthew D. Tadlock, Amy A. Hernandez.Springer International PublishingEdition 1st,2023

Lectures

Thought Leader: Care of the Critically Ill and Injured During Pandemics and Disasters
52nd Critical Care Congress, San Francisco, CA - 1/2023
Resurgence of Old Viruses: Vaccine-Preventable Infections in the Critically Ill
52nd Critical Care Congress, San Francisco, CA - 1/2023
Bulky adenopathy in a heavy smoker
CHEST 2022, Nashville, TN - 10/2022

Get PolitiFact in Your InboxAugust 11th, 2025
Why the Shingles Vaccine Is Important for Your Cardiology PatientsJuly 3rd, 2025
Should Adults Get a Booster Shot of Measles and Other Childhood Vaccines?February 22nd, 2025

Chair, Critical Care Medicine Approval Committee, American Board of Internal Medicine 2024 - Present
Vice Chair, Chest Infections and Disaster Response Network, American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) 2024 - Present
Chair, Rapid Response Task Force, American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) 2023 - Present
Guideline Panel Member, Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2023 - Present
Member, Congress Program Committee, Society of Critical Care Medicine 2018 - Present

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