Ronnie

Archie

MD

Ronnie Archie, MD is Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and part of the Division of Emergency Medical Services (EMS). His emergency medicine interests include disaster medicine, event medicine, burn care and resuscitation, and prehospital, medical student, and postgraduate trainee education.

Born and raised in Chicago, he attended the University of Rochester in upstate New York where he studied health and society and music, focusing on his two passions: music and medicine. While in college, he became heavily involved in collegiate and local volunteer EMS. He later attended medical school at Saint James School of Medicine, where a chance elective in the burn ICU led to an opportunity to complete a pre-residency burn surgery fellowship at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. He then completed his emergency medicine residency at Franciscan Health Olympia Fields, becoming medical student and recruitment chair and receiving the Resident of the Year award in his final year.

Dr. Archie reignited his passion for EMS—spending a month of residency in NYC as one of the house physicians for Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium during an event medicine elective—and pursued a second fellowship in EMS at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU). After fellowship, Dr. Archie stayed on at WashU for a short while before moving to Music City to join the Vanderbilt faculty.

Outside of medicine, he enjoys playing with almost any dog he encounters, and his interests include listening to music (all kinds!), singing, playing piano, musical theater, reading, traveling, swimming and water activities, being outdoors, TV/movies, and almost anything with good company.