About
Titles
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Co-Director of Yale Emergency Scholars Fellowship, Emergency Medicine
Biography
Dr. Caitlin Ryus is an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine and the Co-Director of the Yale Emergency Scholars Fellowship. They earned their bachelor’s in psychology from Bryn Mawr College and MPH from Columbia University with a concentration in socio-medical sciences. After working several years in global health research at Oxford University, they pursued a career in medicine. Dr. Ryus attended Brown University for medical school where they concentrated in disaster medicine. They completed their emergency medicine residency and research fellowship through the Yale Emergency Scholars Program. Dr. Ryus was recently selected as one of the Yale-Drug use, Addiction, and HIV prevention Research Scholars.
Nationally, Dr. Ryus has served on the executive board for the Academy of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM) and as the LGBTQ Committee co-chair for the Academy of Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM). At the local level, they lead the Yale ED Homelessness Task Force– an interdisciplinary team of community organizations, government representatives, street medics, social workers, and people with lived experience of homelessness dedicated to improving ED care among New Haven’s homeless population.
Dr. Ryus’s current research combines the disciplines of community-engaged research with health services research and political epidemiology to evaluate the evidence bases for health and social policies. In their work, they examine health outcomes and service utilization among patients experiencing homelessness, healthcare workforce diversity, and the interplay between social vulnerability and disasters.
Appointments
Emergency Medicine
Assistant ProfessorPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Emergency Medicine
- Janeway Society
- Research Interest
- Yale Medicine
- Yale Medicine Outlist
Education & Training
- Yale Emergency Scholars Fellowship
- Yale School of Medicine (2022)
- Residency
- Yale New Haven Hospital (2021)
- MD
- Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (2017)
- MPH
- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Socio-Medical Sciences (2010)
Board Certifications
Emergency Medicine
- Certification Organization
- AB of Emergency Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 2022
Research
Overview
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Clinical Care
Board Certifications
Emergency Medicine
- Certification Organization
- AB of Emergency Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 2022
Links & Media
News
- June 18, 2024
Yale EM has prodigious showing at SAEM24
- April 10, 2024Source: YaleNews
Office Hours with… Caitlin Ryus
- August 25, 2023Source: Where We Live Connecticut Public Radio / WNPR
New solutions to assisting unhoused people: Moving beyond the shelter model
- February 13, 2019
New Yale Women's Housestaff Organization works to improve well-being and advancement of women residents and fellows