Hilary F. Ryder, M.D., MS, FACP, FHM, is director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Forth Worth. She is professor of medicine at the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas, and adjunct faculty of The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. She is board-certified in internal medicine and works clinically as a hospitalist.

Dr. Ryder earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Chicago. She worked as a geneticist before receiving her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine. She completed her residency training at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, joining the Geisel School of Medicine faculty as a hospitalist. She earned a master’s of science through The Dartmouth Institute. Dr. Ryder served as the clerkship director of the core internal medicine clerkship at Geisel School of Medicine and associate program director and then program director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She has served on committees with the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine and Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine, and she completed a three-year term on the Clerkship Directors of Internal Medicine Council. She also has served as a committee member for the general internal medicine section of the Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program, and as a medical editor for SIMPLE, now Aquifer Internal Medicine, a cased-based third-year medical clerkship curriculum.

Dr. Ryder has a national reputation as a medical educator, and has been featured on several medical education podcasts, including The Medicine Mentors Podcast, Specialty Stories: Helping You Choose a Medical Career, and Lab Medicine Rounds. She recently spoke to Dallas NPR’s Sam Baker about North Texas physician shortages and how Texas Health is responding to this problem. She has a special interest in medical education research. Her current work focuses on the meaning and role of assessments in undergraduate and graduate medical education and understanding moral distress medical students face when encountering ethical dilemmas. Dr. Ryder also mentors students and residents with interest in medical education research and is most proud of the papers she co-authors with learners.

Dr. Ryder spends her free time with her husband Matthew and their four children. She enjoys being outdoors with her children, shopping without them, and making peanut butter and jam sandwiches from scratch by baking the bread and picking and canning the berries. She is an avid traveler, having visited more than 30 countries while living in Europe, the United Kingdom, Central America, and West, East, Central and South Africa.