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Michelle van Ryn is affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with notable contributions to subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Pharmacy, Clinical Psychology, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics covered in their work encompass Obesity and Health Practices, Innovations in Medical Education, Diversity and Career in Medicine, Empathy and Medical Education, Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, Ethics in medical practice, and Medical Education and Admissions.

Their recent publications include:

  • A Critical Review: Moral Injury in Nurses in the Aftermath of a Patient Safety Incident, 2020, Journal of Nursing Scholarship
  • Mandated Implicit Bias Training for Health Professionals-A Step Toward Equity in Health Care, 2022, JAMA Health Forum
  • The role of weight bias and role-modeling in medical students' patient-centered communication with higher weight standardized patients, 2021, Patient Education and Counseling
  • Patient and Health Care Professional Perspectives on Stigma in Integrated Behavioral Health: Barriers and Recommendations, 2023, The Annals of Family Medicine
  • A Longitudinal Study Exploring Learning Environment Culture and Subsequent Risk of Burnout Among Resident Physicians Overall and by Gender, 2021, Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Michelle van Ryn has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including:

  • Sean M. Phelan
  • John F. Dovidio
  • Mike Hennessy
  • Joan M. Griffin
  • Nathaniel E. Miller

Their work has been published in various venues, with a particular concentration in:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Patient Education and Counseling
  • The American Journal of Managed Care
  • Journal of Nursing Scholarship
  • JAMA Health Forum

Best Publications

  • The effect of patient race and socio-economic status on physicians' perceptions of patients.

    Michelle van Ryn;Jane Burke

  • Impact of weight bias and stigma on quality of care and outcomes for patients with obesity

    S. M. Phelan;Diana J Burgess;Mark W Yeazel;Wendy L Hellerstedt

  • Paved With Good Intentions: Do Public Health and Human Service Providers Contribute to Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health?

    Michelle van Ryn;Steven S. Fu

  • Job seeking, reemployment, and mental health: a randomized field experiment in coping with job loss.

    Robert D. Caplan;Amiram D. Vinokur;Richard H. Price;Michelle van Ryn

  • SOCIAL SUPPORT AND UNDERMINING IN CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS: THEIR INDEPENDENT EFFECTS ON THE MENTAL HEALTH OF UNEMPLOYED PERSONS

    Amiram D. Vinokur;Michelle van Ryn

  • Research on the provider contribution to race/ethnicity disparities in medical care.

    Michelle van Ryn

  • Reducing Racial Bias Among Health Care Providers: Lessons from Social-Cognitive Psychology

    Diana Burgess;Diana Burgess;Michelle van Ryn;Michelle van Ryn;John Dovidio;Somnath Saha

  • Association of clinical specialty with symptoms of burnout and career choice regret among US resident physicians

    Liselotte N. Dyrbye;Sara E. Burke;Rachel R. Hardeman;Jeph Herrin

  • Objective burden, resources, and other stressors among informal cancer caregivers: A hidden quality issue?

    Michelle van Ryn;Sara Sanders;Katherine L. Kahn;Courtney van Houtven

  • Why Do Providers Contribute to Disparities and What Can Be Done About It

    Diana J. Burgess;Diana J. Burgess;Steven S. Fu;Steven S. Fu;Michelle Van Ryn

  • The Association between Perceived Discrimination and Underutilization of Needed Medical and Mental Health Care in a Multi-Ethnic Community Sample

    Diana J Burgess;Diana J Burgess;Yingmei Ding;Margaret Hargreaves;Michelle van Ryn

  • Effects of perceived discrimination on mental health and mental health services utilization among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons.

    Diana Burgess;Diana Burgess;Diana Burgess;Richard Lee;Alisia Tran;Michelle Van Ryn

  • How did it work? An examination of the mechanisms through which an intervention for the unemployed promoted job-search behavior

    Michelle van Ryn;Amiram D. Vinokur

  • THE IMPACT OF RACISM ON CLINICIAN COGNITION, BEHAVIOR, AND CLINICAL DECISION MAKING

    Michelle van Ryn;Diana J. Burgess;John F. Dovidio;Sean Phelan

  • Medical School Experiences Associated with Change in Implicit Racial Bias Among 3547 Students: A Medical Student CHANGES Study Report

    Mph Michelle van Ryn PhD;Rachel Hardeman;Sean M. Phelan;Diana J. Burgess;Diana J. Burgess

  • Long-term follow-up and benefit-cost analysis of the Jobs Program: a preventive intervention for the unemployed.

    Amiram D. Vinokur;Michelle Van Ryn;Edward M. Gramlich;Richard H. Price

  • Implicit and explicit weight bias in a national sample of 4,732 medical students: The medical student CHANGES study

    Sean M. Phelan;John F. Dovidio;Rebecca M. Puhl;Diana J. Burgess;Diana J. Burgess

  • Stereotype threat and health disparities: what medical educators and future physicians need to know

    Diana J. Burgess;Jennifer Warren;Sean Phelan;John Dovidio

  • Access to coronary artery bypass surgery by race/ethnicity and gender among patients who are appropriate for surgery.

    Edward L. Hannan;Michelle Van Ryn;Jane Burke;Danice Stone

  • Physicians’ Perceptions of Patients’ Social and Behavioral Characteristics and Race Disparities in Treatment Recommendations for Men With Coronary Artery Disease

    Michelle Van Ryn;Diana J Burgess;Jennifer Malat;Joan Griffin

  • Objective Burden, Resources, and Other Stressors Among Informal Cancer Caregivers

    Michelle van Ryn;Sara Sanders;Katherine L. Kahn;Courtney van Houtven

Frequent Co-Authors

Diana J. Burgess
Diana J. Burgess United States Department of Veterans Affairs
John F. Dovidio
John F. Dovidio Yale University
Rachel R. Hardeman
Rachel R. Hardeman University of Minnesota
Liselotte N. Dyrbye
Liselotte N. Dyrbye University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Patricia A. Ganz
Patricia A. Ganz University of California, Los Angeles
Audie A. Atienza
Audie A. Atienza National Institutes of Health
Amiram D. Vinokur
Amiram D. Vinokur University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert D. Kerns
Robert D. Kerns Yale University
Rebecca M. Puhl
Rebecca M. Puhl University of Connecticut
Richard H. Price
Richard H. Price University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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