van Ryn, Michelle Ph.D.

Location

Rochester, Minnesota

Contact

vanRyn.Michelle@mayo.edu

Summary

Michelle van Ryn, Ph.D., is a senior associate consultant in health Sciences research at Mayo Clinic. The overarching focus of her research is to identify and promote the conditions that support equity and quality in health care encounters, with the goal improving interactions and outcomes for diverse patients, their families and clinicians.

Key Words: quality of health care; healthcare disparities; stigma; social cognition; delivery of health care; physician-patient relations; professional-patient relations; attitude of health personnel; patient participation; patient satisfaction; patient acceptance of health care; prejudice; stereotyping; stereotype threat; perception; social stigma; physicians/psychology; implicit attitudes; decision making; socioeconomic factors; race; ethnicity; sexual orientation; gender; patient participation; patient satisfaction; patient acceptance of health care; implicit association test; questionnaires; health survey; cohort studies; behavior interventions; intervention research.

See my Mayo Clinic research profile