Bridget Ryan, PhD
Position: Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Office: WCPHFM 2105
Phone: 519.661.2111 X20115
Email: Bridget.Ryan@schulich.uwo.ca
Dr. Bridget Ryan is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University, and an Adjunct ICES Scientist. Her research focuses on patient-centred primary care, patients with multimorbidity, and on patients’ engagement in their health care, especially as it relates to technology such as virtual care. She holds a Fellowship in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence from the AMS Healthcare Group, exploring how best to deliver virtual care that is patient-centred and compassionate. She is Principal Investigator on a CIHR grant where patients and family physicians are working to co-create a model of Virtual and In-Person Primary Care (VIP-PC) delivery. She is Co-Principal Investigator on a CIHR grant developing primary-care-based tools to support family physicians and their patients in talking about social isolation. She is Co-Lead of DELPHI, a researchable database created from de-identified primary electronic medical records from practices in southwestern Ontario.
