Dr. Ryan’s research focuses on pay for performance, public quality reporting, disparities, and health care policy analysis. He won the 2009 AcademyHealth Dissertation Award for his dissertation, “The Design of Value-Based Purchasing in Medicare: Theory and Empirical Evidence,” and the John M. Eisenberg Article-of-the-Year Award in Health Services Research for “Has Pay-for-Performance Decreased Access for Minority Patients?”