Ryan McCarthy, MD

Associate Professor
Program Director, Berkeley Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency Program'

Organization:

West Virginia University Eastern Campus

Department:

Department of Internal Medicine Eastern Division

Classification:

Faculty

• MD, WVU School of Medicine, 2002

Chapter contribution, “Healthcare is Human – using narrative medicine to promote wellbeing in graduate medical education,” Impact of Organizational Culture and the Wellbeing of Healthcare Providers, editors Minhaj Qidwai (American Institute of Healthcare Quality, USA, and Unet Consultants, Pakistan) and Arfa Masihuddin (Rufayda - Care for Healthcare, Pakistan), IGI Global Scientific Publishing,  May 2026.

KevinMD.com, “AI in health care: Why artificial intelligence cannot replace human empathy,” March 2026. 
https://kevinmd.com/2026/03/ai-in-health-care-why-artificial-intelligence-cannot-replace-human-empathy.html

Chapter contribution, “A Gen X Journey in Science and Humanity: How a Free-Range Childhood Made a Better Doctor,” included in White Coats, Human Hearts, Kim Downey, editor. Stand Up (for) Doctors, January 2026.

KevinMD.com, “The poet who changed my DNA,” January 2026. 
https://kevinmd.com/2026/01/poetry-in-medicine-how-verse-healed-a-doctors-burnout.html

KevinMD.com, “Why we can’t forget public health,” December 2025. 
https://kevinmd.com/2025/12/why-we-cant-forget-public-health.html

KevinMD.com, “The unseen labor of EMS professionals,” October 2025. 
The unseen labor of EMS professionals

KevinMD.com, “Portraits of Strength: Molly Humphreys and the unseen women of healthcare,” September 2025. 
https://kevinmd.com/2025/09/portraits-of-strength-molly-humphreys-and-the-unseen-women-of-health-care.html

KevinMD.com, “A powerful story of addiction, strength, and redemption, August 2025. 
https://kevinmd.com/2025/08/a-powerful-story-of-addiction-strength-and-redemption.html

KevinMD.com, “When a doctor becomes the narrator of a patient’s final chapter,” June 2025. 
https://kevinmd.com/2025/06/when-a-doctor-becomes-the-narrator-of-a-patients-final-chapter.html

KevinMD.com, “What my first Match Day as a program director taught me about hope,” May 2025. 
https://kevinmd.com/2025/05/what-my-first-match-day-as-a-program-director-taught-me-about-hope.html

KevinMD.com, “What the ‘Far Side’ taught me about belonging in science,” March 2025.
https://kevinmd.com/2025/03/what-the-far-side-taught-me-about-belonging-in-science.html.

KevinMD.com, “Why creativity in medicine can inspire the next generation of doctors, January 2025. 
https://kevinmd.com/2025/01/why-creativity-in-medicine-can-inspire-the-next-generation-of-doctors.html.

KevinMD.com, “Interviewing residency candidates while tired on Friday,” December 2024. 
https://kevinmd.com/2024/12/doing-residency-interviews-while-tired-on-a-friday-afternoon.html.

KevinMD.com, “A doctor’s pandemic playlist, October 2024. 
https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/10/a-doctors-pandemic-playlist.html

KevinMD.com, “When a doctor acts like one of the kids, September 2024. 
https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/09/when-a-doctor-acts-like-one-of-the-kids.html

100 Days in Appalachia, “Healthcare is Human: A Therapist’s Journey in Compassion and Recovery Support,” August 2024 
https://www.100daysinappalachia.com/2024/08/healthcare-is-human-a-therapists-journey-in-compassion-and-recovery-support/

KevinMD.com, “Am I an internist, or a milkman?” August 2024. 
https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/08/am-i-an-internist-or-a-milkman.html

100 Days in Appalachia, “Meet a Doctor Inside a WV Crisis Support Center Who Relies on Hope in Recovery,” July 2024. 
https://www.100daysinappalachia.com/2024/07/meet-a-doctor-inside-a-w-va-crisis-support-center-who-relies-on-hope-in-recovery/

KevinMD.com, “This doctor sometimes listens to pirates,” June 2024. 
https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/06/this-doctor-sometimes-listens-to-pirates.html

KevinMD.com, “When a doctor’s heart falls: Witnessing raw emotion in medicine,” June 2024. 
https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/06/when-a-doctors-heart-falls-witnessing-raw-emotion-in-medicine.html

KevinMD.com, “A Doctor Appreciates a Patients Name,” April 2024. 
https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/05/an-internal-medicine-doctors-appreciation-of-a-patients-name.html

KevinMD.com, “When the doctor’s office becomes a confession booth,” March 2024. 
https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/03/when-the-doctors-office-becomes-a-confession-booth.html

KevinMD.com, “When this doctor gets zero stars,” March 2024. 
https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/03/when-this-doctor-gets-a-zero-star-rating.html

KevinMD.com, “A Surprising Resolution in Primary Care,” February 2024. 
https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/02/a-surprising-resolution-in-primary-care.html

Chapter contribution, "The Interdisciplinarity of Health Humanities," Edward Elgar Handbook of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Administration. Editor Rick Szostak, PhD. With Renée K. Nicholson MFA and Andrea Labus MD, 2024.

KevinMD.com, “The Beautiful Exhaustion of Primary Care,” January 2024. https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/01/the-beautiful-exhaustion-of-primary-care.html

KevinMD.com, “A Doctor Struggles to Provide Mental Health in Appalachia,” December 2023.
https://www.kevinmd.com/2023/12/a-doctor-struggles-to-provide-mental-health-care-in-appalachia.html

Gold Foundation, “The White Coat: scientist’s uniform, spiritual garment, symbol of care and great responsibility,” October 2023.
https://www.gold-foundation.org/newsroom/blog/the-white-coat-scientists-uniform-spiritual-garment-symbol-of-care-and-great-responsibility/ 

KevinMD.com, “COVID vaccines and weight loss medications: a tale of two needles,” October 2023.
https://www.kevinmd.com/2023/10/covid-vaccines-and-weight-loss-medications-a-tale-of-2-needles.html 

KevinMD.com, “The Struggles of a Computer-Based Doctor,” August 2023.
https://www.kevinmd.com/2023/08/the-struggle-of-a-computer-based-doctor.html 

KevinMD.com, “From Grief to Gratitude, How Writing Saved My Life,” March 2023.
https://www.kevinmd.com/2023/03/from-grief-to-gratitude-how-writing-changed-my-life.html 

Martinsburg Journal, National Hospice Month feature article, November 2022.
https://www.journal-news.net/journal-news/thank-you-hospice-of-the-panhandle-saluting-hospice-workers-everywhere-during-national-hospice-month/article_9ec17ce8-ae21-5d85-8adf-fdfa79a411a8.html

https://www.hospiceotp.org/news/thank-you-hospice-of-the-panhandle-saluting-hospice-workers-everywhere-during-national-hospice-month/ 

100 Days in Appalachia, “Healthcare is Human: When Your Work is Hands-On and In-Person, One PT says COVID Was a Huge Challenge,” Ryan McCarthy, Molly Humphreys, September 2021. 
https://www.100daysinappalachia.com/2021/09/when-your-work-is-hands-on-and-in-person-one-pt-says-covid-was-a-huge-challenge/

100 Days in Appalachia, “Healthcare is Human: The Hospice Worker Balancing the Pulls of Home and Help During a Pandemic," Ryan McCarthy and Molly Humphreys, May 2021.
https://www.100daysinappalachia.com/2021/05/healthcare-is-human-the-hospice-worker-balancing-the-pulls-of-home-and-help-during-a-pandemic/

100 Days in Appalachia, “Healthcare is Human: Meet the Security Guard Who is Steady Presence in a Chaotic Pandemic,” Ryan McCarthy and Molly Humphreys, April 2021.
https://www.100daysinappalachia.com/2021/04/healthcare-is-human-the-security-guard-whos-a-steady-presence-in-a-chaotic-pandemic/

100 Days in Appalachia, “Healthcare is Human: Meet the Brave Nurse Looking for a Comfortable Face Mask,” Ryan McCarthy and Molly Humphreys, March 2021.
https://www.100daysinappalachia.com/2021/03/healthcare-is-human-meet-the-brave-nurse-looking-for-a-comfortable-face-mask/

100 Days in Appalachia, “Healthcare is Human: Meet the W.Va. Hospital Custodian Committed to ‘HOPE’ During a Pandemic,” Ryan McCarthy and Molly Humphreys, March 2021.
https://www.100daysinappalachia.com/2021/03/healthcare-is-human-meet-the-w-va-hospital-custodian-committed-to-hope-during-a-pandemic/

Synapses, “This Computer” poem, West Virginia University, November 2020.   

American Journal of Hematology Volume 95: Abstracts from the 2020 Lymphoma, Leukemia and Myeloma Congress October 21–24, 2020, “B-Cell Lymphoma Manifesting as Nephrotic Syndrome,” Lillian Paige Harry DO, Ryan McCarthy MD, October 2020.

Marshall University Journal of Medicine, “Acute Diagnosis of Wilson’s Disease in a Teenage Patient,” Sarah Irvin BS, Ryan McCarthy MD, November 2019. 
https://mds.marshall.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1242&context=mjm 

Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, “Grocery Store Hug.” Johns Hopkins University Press, Summer 2019.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/731745

Medical Specialties

• Internal Medicine

Board Certifications

• Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine

Special Training

• Residency, Internal Medicine / Pediatrics
  WVU School of Medicine - Ruby Memorial Hospital, 2006