About
Dr. Ryan is a licensed psychologist and board certified clinical neuropsychologist. She works as a clinical professor of Psychiatry at Michigan Medicine and faculty associate of Psychology, LSA, at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in clinical psychology, with a focus in neuropsychology, from Wayne State University in 2007. She completed an APA accredited pre-doctoral internship at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and an APA accredited post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry. She has been on faculty at Michigan Medicine since 2009. Her clinical interests include adult neuropsychological assessment, dementia, and other neurological and psychiatric disorders. Research interests include the use of neuropsychological tests to inform functional outcomes among medical and psychiatric populations, the impact of neuropsychological functioning on patient and caregiver well-being, and cognitive, behavioral, and functional decline in aging/dementia. She also is interested in using technology and other ways of capturing cognitive and functional shifts in chronic mental illness. She is co-investigator on a longitudinal study of bipolar disorder (Prechter Bipolar Research Program) and often works with undergraduate and graduates students on projects related to mood disorders. She is actively involved in clinical services through the Neuropsychology section (Department of Psychiatry), clinical research, and training and supervision of postdoctoral residents, undergraduate trainees interested in research experience, and other clinical trainees.
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