UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE
AND HEALTH SCIENCES

Meet the Team

Megan Leer

As a public relations consultant for UMHS, Megan works with the marketing team to develop compelling content, share thought leadership, and manage media relations. With more than 20 years of experience working across a range of industries, Megan takes an “education over ego” approach – leveraging subject matter expertise as the key to building a strong foundation for PR efforts. Megan is skilled at connecting key stakeholders with targeted media to generate measurable results and has secured feature coverage in leading media outlets, including The New York Times, US News and World Report, Yahoo! Finance, and Healthline.

Scott Harrah, MA

Scott is Director of Digital Content at UMHS & editor of the UMHS Endeavour blog. He has a Master of Arts in journalism from New York University. When he’s not writing about UMHS students, faculty, events, public health, alumni & UMHS research, he writes and edits Broadway theater reviews for a website he publishes in New York City, StageZine.com.

Callie Torres

Callie Torres is a Captain in the United States Air Force and a resident at Wash U/Barnes Jewish Hospital in St Louis. She is a freelance writer with many published medical articles as well as multiple peer-reviewed medical publications.

Ryan Ross, MPH

Ryan is the Director of Marketing at UMHS. He holds a Masters in Public Health from the University of Southern California and a BA in Marketing from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also a musician and an avid outdoorsman.