Ryan Kruis

Ryan Kruis is a senior manager in the Manatt Business Strategy, Policy and Analytics business unit of Manatt Health group with specific expertise in behavioral health, digital health and academic medicine. He offers implementation support, strategy development and project management on health care business and policy matters to a wide range of prominent health care stakeholders.

Before joining Manatt, Ryan served for nearly a decade in an array of senior roles at the Center for Telehealth at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), a federally designated National Telehealth Center of Excellence. In these roles, Ryan led the Center’s federal, state, and philanthropic grantmaking efforts; oversaw the Center’s research and data infrastructure; served as principal investigator and coinvestigator on numerous rural and behavioral health grants; and led telehealth advocacy and coalition building under the auspices of the South Carolina Telehealth Alliance, in partnership with the SC legislature and state Medicaid office. While at MUSC, Ryan also developed and implemented an enterprise-wide telehealth psychiatric collaborative care management program focused on increasing behavioral health access, particularly in rural South Carolina.

Prior to MUSC, Ryan held positions at both at MIT, overseeing a campus-wide mental health and suicide prevention initiative, and at The Fenway Institute of Fenway Health, managing a diverse portfolio of NIH- and HRSA-funded education, training, and clinical research on substance use, LGBTQIA+ health, and HIV prevention and treatment.

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Ryan Kruis

Ryan Kruis is a senior manager in the Manatt Business Strategy, Policy and Analytics business unit of Manatt Health group with specific expertise in behavioral health, digital health and academic medicine. He offers implementation support, strategy development and project management on health care business and policy matters to a wide range of prominent health care stakeholders.

Before joining Manatt, Ryan served for nearly a decade in an array of senior roles at the Center for Telehealth at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), a federally designated National Telehealth Center of Excellence. In these roles, Ryan led the Center’s federal, state, and philanthropic grantmaking efforts; oversaw the Center’s research and data infrastructure; served as principal investigator and coinvestigator on numerous rural and behavioral health grants; and led telehealth advocacy and coalition building under the auspices of the South Carolina Telehealth Alliance, in partnership with the SC legislature and state Medicaid office. While at MUSC, Ryan also developed and implemented an enterprise-wide telehealth psychiatric collaborative care management program focused on increasing behavioral health access, particularly in rural South Carolina.

Prior to MUSC, Ryan held positions at both at MIT, overseeing a campus-wide mental health and suicide prevention initiative, and at The Fenway Institute of Fenway Health, managing a diverse portfolio of NIH- and HRSA-funded education, training, and clinical research on substance use, LGBTQIA+ health, and HIV prevention and treatment.

Education

  • Medical University of South Carolina, Ph.D., Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Health Services Research
  • Grand Valley State University, M.S.W.
  • Calvin University, B.A., English & Religion

Accomplishments

Speaker, “Governing AI in Practice: How Systems Are Actually Doing This.” American Telemedicine Association NEXUS26, 2026

Speaker, “Scaling Telehealth and Other Emerging Technologies to Mitigate the Health Care Workforce Crisis.” Annual Telehealth Summit of SC, 2025.Speaker, “Telehealth Innovation and Rural Healthcare.” Bridging the Gap: A NeuroFlow Podcast, 2024

Speaker, “The Impact of Integrated Behavioral Health on Financial Sustainability.” NeuroFlow Summit, 2024

Speaker, “Developing Strategy & Defining Telehealth Outcomes.” HRSA Telehealth Implementation Bootcamp, 2024

Speaker, “Digital Innovations to Support Rural Health and Health Equity.” California Telehealth Resource Center Summit, 2024

Speaker, “Implementing Telehealth-enabled Psychiatric Collaborative Care (CoCM) in Rural South Carolina.,” NRHA Annual Rural Health Conference, 2024

Speaker, “Practical Strategies for Facilitating Collaboration in School-based Health Centers to Enhance Youth Mental Health Care,” Southeastern School Behavioral Health Conference, 2024

Speaker, “Implementation of Telehealth-enabled Psychiatric Collaborative Care in Rural South Carolina.,” 11th Annual Telehealth Summit of SC, 2023

Speaker, “Differences in Telehealth Utilization by State and Type of Parity Law.,” SEARCH 2023 National Telehealth Research Symposium., 2023

Speaker, “Pediatric Patient Telehealth Experiences: A Comparison to In-person in 2020 and 2022.,” SEARCH 2023 National Telehealth Research Symposium, 2023

Speaker, “Comparison of TDABC-estimated Visit Cost for Telehealth with Centralized Support Vs In-person Visits and Benchmarked Against Previous Data.,” SEARCH 2023 National Telehealth Research Symposium, 2023

Speaker, “e-Consent for South Carolina’s Data-to-Care Program.,” US Conference on HIV and AIDS., 2023

Speaker, “Use of Health Care Utilization Heatmaps to Inform Statewide Telehealth Policy and Expansion in South Carolina.,” 10th Annual Telehealth Summit of SC, 2022

Speaker, “Rapid Response: Leveraging Statewide Telehealth Infrastructure to Respond to the COVID19 Pandemic.,” APHA 2021 Annual Meeting and Expo., 2021

Speaker, “Implementation of a Student Asthma-Monitoring Mobile Application.,” Lowcountry Nursing Research Conference, 2021

Speaker, “Overview of the Telehealth Service Implementation Model (TSIMTM),” Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center Summit, 2020

Speaker, “Telehealth Outcomes Research: Show Me the Data.,” Virtual American Telemedicine Association Annual Meeting, 2020

Speaker, “Telehealth Implementation Evaluation: A Framework for Measurement Strategies and Tools,” American Telehealth Association Annual Meeting, 2020

Speaker, “Virtual Urgent Care: From Hurricanes to Pandemics,” SEARCH 2020 – National Telehealth Research Symposium, 2020

Speaker, “Preventive Care Utilization by Patients who Use Virtual Urgent Care,” North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Annual Meeting, 2020

Speaker, “Deploying HRSA Telehealth Center of Excellence Case Nationwide,” Converge2Xcelerate Conference, 2019

Speaker, “Agencies: Sustain and Transform to Survive,” US Conference on AIDS, 2015

Speaker, ““Examining the Psychometric Properties of a Sex-related Motives for Drinking Scale Among HIV-infected Men Who Have Sex with Men,” 37th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, 2014

Speaker, “Development and Pilot Testing of a Brief Intervention to Reduce Heavy Alcohol Use Among HIV-infected MSM in an Urban Community Health Center,” XIX Biennial Meeting of the International AIDS Society, 2012

Speaker, “A Photovoice Exploration of Spirituality and Religion among Social Work Students and Practitioners,” 7th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, 2011

Coauthor, “Building a Telemedicine Program to Create a Sustainable Care Delivery Model for a Rural Hospital at Risk for Closure.,” Telemed J E Health, 2025

Coauthor, “Barriers and facilitators to implementing a technology-enhanced psychiatric collaborative care model among rural primary care sites: a mixed-methods implementation case study.,” BMC Prim Care, 2025

Coauthor, “Implementing a Virtual, Collaborative Care Weight Management Program in Rural Primary Care: Pilot Results and Insights.,” Telemed Rep, 2025

Coauthor, “Barriers and facilitators to implementing psychiatric collaborative care in rural United States: A mixed-methods systematic review.” Journal of Rural Mental Health, 2024

Coauthor, “Telehealth Outreach Program for Child Traumatic Stress: Strategies for Long-Term Sustainability.” Healthcare (Basel), 2024

Co-author, “Patient Perceptions of Audio-Only Versus Video Telehealth Visits: A Qualitative Study Among Patients in an Academic Medical Center Setting.,” Telemed Rep., 2024

Co-author, “The role of stroke care infrastructure on the effectiveness of a hub-and-spoke telestroke model in South Carolina.,” J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis., 2024

Co-author, “Text and Telephone Screening and Referral Improved Detection and Treatment of Maternal Mental Health Conditions.,” Health Aff (Millwood), 2024

Co-author, “Establishing a Centralized Virtual Visit Support Team: Early Insights.,” Healthcare (Basel), 2023

Co-author, “Development of an Implementation Science Telehealth Toolkit to Promote Research Capacity in Evaluation of Telehealth Programs.,” Telemed Rep., 2023

Co-author, “Examining Utilization of an Outpatient Telenutrition, Service Across Primary Care Clinics in South Carolina.,” Telemed J E Health., 2023

Co-author, “Contribution of Continuous Virtual Monitoring to Hospital Safety, Quality, and Value of Care for COVID-19 Patients.,” Telemedicine, journal and e-health: the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association, 2023

Co-author, “Implementation of a women's reproductive behavioral health telemedicine program: a qualitative study of barriers and facilitators in obstetric and pediatric clinics.,” BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2023

Co-author, “Proactive Electronic Visits for Smoking Cessation and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary

Co-author, Disease Screening in Primary Care: Randomized Controlled Trial of Feasibility, Acceptability, and Efficacy.,” Journal of medical Internet research, 2022

Co-author, “Preventive Care Utilization by Patients Who Use Virtual Urgent Care.,” Telemed J E Health., 2022

Co-author, “A Pilot Study Examining Access to and Satisfaction with Maternal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment via Telemedicine.,” Telemedicine reports, 2022

Co-author, “Facilitators and Barriers to Implementation of School-Based Telehealth Asthma Care: Program Champion Perspectives.,” Academic pediatrics, 2021

Co-author, “Nurse Perspectives Regarding Implementation of an Asthma Monitoring Mobile Health Application in the School Setting.,” Telemedicine journal and e-health: the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association, 2021

Co-author, “School Nurse Perception of Asthma Care in School-Based Telehealth.,” J Asthma., 2021

Co-author, “Do Hospitals Providing Telehealth in Emergency Departments Have Lower Emergency Department Costs?,” Telemed J E Health., 2020

Co-author, “Clinical and Technical Considerations of an Open Access Telehealth Network in South Carolina: Definition and Deployment.,” Med Internet Res., 2020

Co-author, “Assessing Sexual Motives for Drinking Alcohol Among HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men.,” Psychol Addict Behav., 2015

Co-author, “Daily Associations Between Alcohol Use and Unprotected Anal Sex Among Heavy Drinking HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men.,” AIDS and behavior, 2015

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