Join Dr. Montoya as he discusses his career, a brief overview of the history of comic books, and an introduction to the world of Graphic Medicine, where he will highlight some of his most recent work. 

About the speaker: Dr. Ryan Montoya is a board-certified Family Medicine physician. He graduated from Harvard University and completed graduate courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University before attending the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Montoya provided primary care and opioid addiction treatment in Massachusetts. He has lived and provided healthcare in the countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina and India. He currently serves as the Physician Medical Officer for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia.

Outside of medicine, Dr. Montoya is a professional comic book artist and writer whose works have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine and Scientific American. He received art training from the Massachusetts College of Art, Art Institute of Boston, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Joe Kubert School of Comic Book Art. Dr. Montoya is a contributing fellow to the Harvard School of Public Health and has lectured in the US, Ireland, and Italy. He consults as a luggage designer for the brand Goyard, and as project manager for the CIFF Raven Fashion Fair Copenhagen and the Devambez Panorama fashion collective in Paris.

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