Ryan Kandrack is a Ph.D. candidate in Health Policy and Management at UNC Chapel Hill and an AHRQ National Research Service Award (NRSA) predoctoral fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. His research interests include understanding the effects of changes in primary care organization, staffing, and payment on care delivery and patient outcomes; health care labor markets; and productivity and efficiency in health care delivery. Before coming to UNC, Ryan conducted health services research at the RAND Corporation and evaluated clinical programs and policies at UPMC Health Plan.