Ryan Falk (MD, CCFP-ESS, MGSC, FRRMS, FCFP, DTM&H) is a rural generalist physician/surgeon from British Columbia, Canada who spends most of his clinical time in the Beaufort Delta Region of the Northwest Territories. He holds a BSc in Biology and a BA in French and Archaeology from Simon Fraser University, an MD from the University of British Columbia (UBC), and a Masters in Global Surgical Care (MGSC) from UBC. His professional interests include medical education and surgical care for rural/remote and Indigenous populations. He is on faculty with UBC’s Department of Surgery (MGSC program) and the Department of Family Practice (rural clinical instructor).

Ryan started the certificate program in 2018 and migrated into the online MA program in January 2023. As a generalist at heart, his interests within the history of medicine are very broad but tend towards transitions in theory/practice and medical/surgical education. During the Research Practicum, his project focused on the role played by WWI Casualty Clearing Stations in transforming the contemporary understanding of traumatic shock. For his thesis, he is investigating cesarean sections in the early modern period, when they transitioned from a post-mortem procedure to one performed on living women.