Matthew Lyon MD, RDMS

Matt Lyon, MD, is the J. Harold Harrison, MD, Distinguished University Chair in Emergency Medicine and Professor of Emergency Medicine. He serves as Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and Executive Director of the Center for Ultrasound Education for the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. He also serves as Vice Chairman for Academic Programs and Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine and as the Virtual Care Service Chief at AU Health. Dr. Lyon is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering) and of the Medical College of Georgia (MD, 1999). He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia in 2003.

Dr. Lyon is a well-established clinician, educator, and researcher. He has a national reputation as an educator on the clinician use of ultrasound and is a frequent national and international speaker. Much of his research has focused on clinical applications of ultrasound and sickle cell anemia. He has pioneered several new applications for ultrasound, including the use of ultrasound for volume resuscitation in critically ill patients, the use of ultrasound for respiratory complaints, and for traumatic brain injury assessment. His brain injury assessment using ultrasound is experimentally and clinically oriented, receiving federal grant funding and yielding several patents. He has extensive collaborations with the industry to bring new devices to the market for brain injury assessment and is currently working with Space X on novel diagnostic tools for Space Flight Associated Neuro-ocular Syndrome.

Continuing on work that began in the early 2000s, Dr. Lyon was charged with creating an integrated ultrasound education training program for undergraduate and graduate medical education for the Medical College of Georgia. In October 2016, he was named the Executive Director of the Center for Ultrasound Education. The mission of this Center is to utilize ultrasound as an educational tool, providing a cognitive scaffolding to improve medical education. His curriculum is fully integrated into the 4-year curriculum for all 920 medical students at MCG, as well as approximately 350 postgraduate medical residents from a wide range of specialties at Augusta University Medical Center. The Center provides education to residency programs across Georgia, supporting the Center’s mission. His efforts have produced a novel, nation-leading educational experience for MCG learners across the state. Dr. Lyon also conducts a nationally accredited, post-graduate fellowship training program for clinician-performed ultrasound (Advanced Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship) with up to 3 fellows per year.