About me
Dr. Mark Ryan is an Associate Professor and the Vice-Chair of Clinical Operations and Quality at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)’s Department of Family Medicine and Population Health. In this role, Dr. Ryan provides support and guidance for 10 medical offices and supports the current growth of the Department’s clinical operations. Dr. Ryan completed his undergraduate training at the College of William and Mary, and his medical training at the VCU School of Medicine. After completing a rural residency in Blackstone, Virginia, Dr. Ryan worked in for four years in Charlotte County, Virginia. After four years in rural practice, Dr. Ryan returned to Richmond, Virginia, to practice at VCU Health’s Hayes E. Willis Health Center, a safety net practice for VCU Health which focuses on caring for uninsured and underinsured patients as well as many patients with limited English proficiency.
Dr. Ryan served as Medical Director for seven years, during which time he helped build an interprofessional practice team and established the center as a key medical student teaching site. Dr. Ryan is the Medical Director for the International/Inner City/Rural Preceptorship (I2CRP) program and has served as the Course Director for VCU’s “Patient, Physician, and Society” course, and is the Medical Director for a service project in the Dominican Republic.
