Ryan McGinnis

Wake Forest School of Medicine

Dr. Ryan McGinnis is the Director of the Center for Remote Health Monitoring, Co-Director of the M-Sense Research Group, and an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. He earned his MS and PhD from the University of Michigan, where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship. Dr. McGinnis then led digital biomarker development at MC10, Inc., helping to secure FDA clearance for the BioStamp® sensor platform. He went on to become the Fessenden Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Vermont and a Visiting Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford before joining Wake Forest. Dr. McGinnis is a leading voice in digital health, and particularly the use of wearables for remote health assessment and intervention. His translational research program focuses on the intersections between wearable/mobile technologies, design, biomechanics, signal processing, and machine learning to develop, evaluate, and commercialize digital health technologies. He’s published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, holds more than ten patents, and has spun off two companies, with several others commercializing his group’s work. He serves as Associate Editor for npj Digital Medicine and PLOS Digital Health, and has received distinctions including the NSF CAREER Award, ASEE’s Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, and induction into the University of Vermont’s Inventor Hall of Fame (twice).