Summary
Ryan Harrison is an enterprise architect and interoperability expert with 11 years of experience modernizing data exchange across health IT and life-sciences. Currently a Presidential Innovation Fellow at CDC, he architected the agency’s data exchange modernization portfolio and serves as the technical SME shaping TEFCA for public health. He blends deep technical fluency in FHIR, HL7v2 and TEFCA with practical delivery experience—leading cloud and DevOps initiatives, building engineering teams at a life-sciences startup, and advising large healthcare enterprises. Trained as a D.Phil. computational biophysicist, he brings a deliberative, evidence-driven leadership style that pairs scientific rigor with pragmatic policy translation. Comfortable influencing without formal authority, he steps into command only when teams are deadlocked, and his work has already helped institutionalize CDC’s Data Transport Branch as the long-term home for his modernization efforts.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil) Computational Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil) Computational Biophysics at University of Oxford
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
Science and Innovation Plus (Part-time), Science and Innovation Plus (Part-time) at University of Oxford - Said Business School
International Business & Economics Program, International Business & Economics Program at Danish Institute for Study Abroad