Harriot College Alumni Profile: Bryan Gerber
ECU 2023 “40 Under Forty” Leadership Recipient
Dr. Bryan Thomas Gerber (B.S. Biology ’08; Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine Residency ’20; Critical Care Medicine Fellowship ’21), who lives in Greenville, NC, is one of ECU’s 2023 “40 Under Forty” Leadership Awardees and a Harriot College alumnus.
“I feel honored to receive such an award from my alma mater and to join a highly regarded group of individuals,” he said.
Gerber’s #HarriotCollegeMajor is helping him #MakeAMajorDifference in the education, health and livelihood of local area residents as a full-time critical care and emergency medicine physician with ECU Physicians, an assistant medical director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and as a clinical assistant professor of medicine.
In these roles, Gerber leads a multi-disciplinary medical team in the intensive care unit, educates and coordinates the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) team, and he also assists in the emergency departments at other Eastern North Carolina ECU Health community hospitals.
“I enjoy the challenge of practicing medicine in a fast-paced, high acuity environment that demands critical thinking with analytical skills to help patients rehabilitate and survive in very vulnerable times of their lives,” Gerber said.
As a student, Gerber said his education provided the foundation for his medical career.
“ECU’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences helped prepare me for success by providing a strong foundation of fundamental education in the sciences as well as fine-tuning my study skills for the long and arduous path of medicine,” he said.
In addition to learning leadership skills at ECU, few people know that Gerber may also have honed some of those skills as an Eagle Scout.
Read more about ECU’s “40 Under Forty” awards. The awards will transition to a biennial celebration, with the next iteration honoring the recipients of 2025.