Ryan D. Ball MD, MBA, FASE

Ryan Ball, MD, FASE, has been appointed Chief Anesthesiologist at UPMC Passavant, stepping into the role on July 1, 2021, as Dr. Dan Sullivan steps down as previously announced to focus on safety and quality. Ryan has been serving as Interim Assistant Chief Anesthesiologist at UPMC Passavant since November 1, 2020.

Ryan earned both his BS and MD from the University of Kentucky. He completed his anesthesiology residency at UPMC, serving as Chief Resident in 2011, and continued to complete the Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellowship at UPMC the following year. Ryan joined our department’s faculty as an Assistant Professor and attending anesthesiologist at UPMC Presbyterian in 2012 and moved to join the clinical team at Passavant in 2013. He served as the Resident TEE Rotation Director while at Presby and continues to serve in this role at Passavant. Since 2016, Ryan has served as the ERAS Program Director/Champion at Passavant. In 2018, he was appointed a Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE). In 2020, he was inducted into the international business honor society Beta Sigma Gamma.