Jennifer Marie Ryan, PT, DPT, MS is a Board Certified Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Clinical Specialist and Assistant Professor at Northwestern University Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences. She teaches in the cardiovascular and pulmonary curriculum, physiology and in the foundational courses of the curriculum. Her experience also includes teaching post professional education overseeing the critical care fellowship at the University of Chicago and is Co-Director of the NM Acute Care Residency. Dr Ryan graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1990 with a bachelor of science. In 2002 she received a masters of science from Finch University and in 2004 a transitional doctor of physical therapy from Rosalind Franklin University. Her clinical practice has focused on care for critically ill individuals for most of her thirty years of practice.