Ria Fyffe-Freil

Ria is the Director of Clinical Chemistry at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology. She serves as the CLIA Medical Director for 3 laboratories, oversees all chemistry testing across the enterprise, and acts as the technical director of the Nebraska Public Services and Health Laboratories (focusing on mass spectrometry-based toxicology testing). She completed her clinical chemistry fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, specializing in protein immunology in 2023 before joining Nebraska Medicine. Before joining the laboratory medicine field, Ria earned her PhD in Molecular Physiology from Virginia Commonwealth University, focusing on liver transplantation and organ preservation, as well as a master's degree in Addiction Science. Prior to and throughout graduate school, Ria worked for the University of Virginia Health System as a medevac dispatcher and triaging incoming ER patients. She is