Ryan O'Malley

For more than eight years, Professor O’Malley had the privilege to work in multiple areas of critical care, including on the intensive care unit, the cardiac care unit, and the cardiac surgery unit. He has worked in community hospitals and large teaching facilities, and his certifications include critical care nursing (CCRN), cardiac medicine (CMC), and clinical nurse leader (CNL).

Professor O’Malley also works as a nationally certified adult nurse practitioner, and currently specializes in interventional pain management. Pain management has taught him empathy, but also has exposed him to the opioid epidemic in the United States. His passion and doctoral project each center around safer pain management practices and reducing opioid addiction (termed opioid use disorder).

His main interest is teaching pathology, healthcare informatics, and medical-surgical nursing to the next generation of nurses.

• Medical-Surgical Nursing
• Adult-Gerontology ambulatory medicine
• Advanced Practice Nursing

• Opioid use disorder
• Pain management
• Critical care nursing
• Medical-surgical nursing
• Vulnerable populations

• Member of the Simulation Committee
• Member-Academic Integrity Committee

• University of Alabama, Doctor of Nursing Practice, 2020
• California State University, Long Beach, Masters of Nursing, 2015
• California State University, Fullerton, Bachelor of Science in Nursing with a Minor in Spanish
• Los Angeles Valley College, Associate Degree in Spanish

• Assistant Professor in Nursing, University of San Francisco
• Nurse Practitioner, Self-employed
• Registered Nurse, Kaiser Permanente, Sunset
• Registered Nurse, Los Alamitos Medical Center

• Outstanding Professor Beyond the Hilltop Award, 2022