Ryan Tennant is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He is co-supervised by Dr. Catherine M Burns and Dr. Kate Mercer. Ryan's doctoral studies are supported by the Engineering Excellence Doctoral Fellowship provided by the Faculty of Engineering
Ryan's research interests span healthcare and medical device development from a human factors lens. He is primarily interested in how to design digital health information technologies that can better support healthcare workers, caregivers and patients in complex settings where information synthesis is required to make critical and timely decisions. His interests have led to collaborations with research groups from the School of Pharmacy on evaluating smart medication packaging and the development of a mobile application to support mass vaccination clinics.
For his Ph.D., Ryan's research focuses on understanding how to better integrate digital technologies that use artificial intelligence in the clinical environment to support shared clinical decision-making, where he is applying his expertise in the context of paediatric sepsis prediction.
