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Biography
Dr. Ryan M. Kane, MPH, MHSc is a health services researcher at the Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and in the department of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and an internal medicine primary care provider at Tufts Medical Center. He has clinical expertise in primary care, weight management, and public health. Dr. Kane earned a BS in Biology from Clemson University, MD from the Medical University of South Carolina, MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and MHSc in Clinical Research from the Duke University School of Medicine. He pursued residency training in internal medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, where he focused on underserved primary care and served as Chief Resident. Thereafter, Dr. Kane was a National Clinician Scholar in internal medicine at Duke University, where he also held roles in both local public health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Kane currently serves on the National Council for the Society of General Internal Medicine. His research focuses on advancing equitable obesity care by integrating food is medicine interventions into standard of care clinical practice. His work has been presented at national scientific meetings, published in leading journals, and featured in professional society publications and national media. At Tufts, his work spans modeling food is medicine and GLP-1 cost-effectiveness, optimizing obesity care delivery in primary care, and advancing health equity through primary care-based food is medicine research.