Ryan Montoya, MD

Dr. Ryan J. Montoya, M.D., is a board-certified Family Medicine physician. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Biology 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 full spectrum primary care and opioid addiction treatment at a Federally Qualified Health Center and his own direct primary care practice in Massachusetts. He has lived and provided community healthcare in the countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina and India and acted as the Associate Medical Director of Planned Parenthood in Washington, DC. He currently serves as the Physician Medical Officer for the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia. Outside the practice 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 and trunk designer for the French brand Goyard, and as project manager for the CIFF Raven fashion fair in Copenhagen and the Devambez Panorama fashion collective in Paris.