Rob Bryan is a Registered Respiratory Therapist and Certified Clinical Anaesthesia Assistant with more than 32 years of clinical experience and practices at Mackenzie Health at both the Cortilucci Vaughan Hospital and  Richmond Hill Hospital, and at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre in Toronto.

Rob has a special interest in growing the role of AAs on the anesthesia care team across Canada and is the current Chair of the CSRT Certified Clinical Anesthesia Assistant network. Rob has been an active professional association volunteer with the Ontario Lung Association/Ontario Respiratory Care Society and the Respiratory Therapy Society of Ontario and served on various advocacy committees and executive chairs spanning 25 years.

Rob has a special interest in quality assurance programming and in information technology integration in anesthesia care and has participated as a co-lead and subject matter expert on several anesthesia department projects at Mackenzie Health including: pioneering the ACT and establishing the AA role, anesthesia device integration and implementation of the first EPIC anesthesia optime electronic medical record installation in Canada, and the implementation of an electronic automated anesthesia pharmacy inventory management system.