About
Ryan Korn, MD
Founder and physician. Board-certified in emergency medicine, trained at UC San Diego, practicing in Las Vegas emergency departments.
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The short version
Emergency medicine, moved upstream
Dr. Korn spends his working life in emergency departments. That means he meets people at the point where something has already gone wrong, often badly, often because nobody had the time to catch it earlier.
Concierge medicine exists to catch things earlier. The usual version of it is run by primary care physicians, which is a good fit for routine prevention and a poor fit for the acute half of medicine. Dr. Korn built this practice around the other half: the fever at 9 p.m., the laceration on a Saturday, the chest pressure that turns out to be reflux and the one that does not.
Membership gives him the time to do both. Long visits, same-day access, and a direct line that a physician answers rather than a service.
Education & training
The record
- 2020 – 2024 UC San DiegoResidency in Emergency Medicine. One of the country's leading EM training programs, based at UC San Diego Health.
- 2016 – 2020 University of Rochester School of Medicine and DentistryDoctor of Medicine. Rochester, New York.
- 2013 – 2014 University of RochesterPostbaccalaureate pre-medical program.
- 2010 – 2013 Hobart CollegeBA, History, magna cum laude. Geneva, New York.
- Certification American Board of Emergency MedicineBoard-certified in emergency medicine.
- Licensure Nevada & CaliforniaActive medical licenses in both states.
Writing & teaching
Outside the department
Dr. Korn has written national guidance for EMRA, the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association, on telemedicine and on informatics in emergency care. Both subjects sit at the intersection of clinical medicine and technology, which is where he thinks the next decade of outpatient care will be decided.
He lectures on artificial intelligence in clinical medicine, including talks at UC San Diego and in Las Vegas. His position is unfashionably plain: the tools are useful when they take work off a clinician's desk, and dangerous when they are used to replace a clinician's judgment.
The philosophy
What concierge medicine gets wrong
Most concierge practices sell availability. You get a phone number, a nicer waiting room, and a doctor who is not rushed. That is worth something, but it is not medicine.
The parts that change outcomes are less glamorous: knowing when a symptom is a warning sign, knowing which specialist actually answers the phone, knowing how to get someone admitted without spending six hours in a hallway, and knowing when the right answer is to do nothing at all.
That is what an emergency physician brings to a primary care relationship, and it is the reason this practice exists.
Meet him before you decide.
A 15-minute call, no charge. Bring the health question you have been putting off.