Summary
Patrick Ryan is a leader in observational health data analytics with 12+ years driving epidemiology and real-world evidence programs at Johnson & Johnson, now serving as Vice President to advance methods that clarify medical product effects in routine care. He combines academic rigor as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia and long-standing involvement with OHDSI and OMOP to bridge open-source large-scale analytics with regulatory-grade evidence generation. Trained with a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences and dual engineering degrees from Cornell, he blends statistical epidemiology, software fluency, and product-minded leadership. A hands-on engineer at heart, he contributes code and tests to open projects and lists languages like Elixir, Clojure, Python, Go, and Zig among his favorites—signaling a polyglot, experimental approach to tooling. Based in Pennsylvania, he has a track record of building cross-functional teams that translate complex observational datasets into actionable insights for pharma decision-making. Notably, his background spans industry, academia, and collaborative consortia, enabling uncommon fluency in both method development and production-grade analytics.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Pharmaceutical Sciences, PhD, Pharmaceutical Sciences at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.S., M.Eng, Computer Science, Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, B.S., M.Eng, Computer Science, Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell University
Stonington High School