Chief, Population Health
Family Health Centers of San Diego
Disclosure(s): AbbVie: Advisor/Consultant, Honoraria; Gilead Sciences, Inc.: Advisor/Consultant, Honoraria; Pfizer: Advisor/Consultant, Honoraria; Viiv: Advisor/Consultant, Honoraria
Dr. Ramers studied Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at UCLA, completed medical school at UC San Diego, and residency training in internal medicine/pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center. He completed fellowship training in Infectious Diseases and Master’s degree in global Public Health at the University of Washington in Seattle.
He currently serves as the Chief of Population Health and Director of Graduate Medical Education at the Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD), a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) system serving nearly 200,000 medically underserved individuals throughout San Diego county. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Addiction Medicine, and has clinical expertise in HIV, HBV, HCV, COVID-19, MPOX and care of immigrant and refugee populations. Dr. Ramers maintains a busy bilingual clinical practice providing specialty and primary care to underserved individuals of all ages. He serves as the co-chair of the California/Hawaii chapter of the American Academy of HIV medicine. Since 2018 he has served as Senior Clinical Advisor for the Clinton Health Access Initiative’s Global Hepatitis and COVID-19 Therapeutics Programs, working on HBV, HCV and COVID-19 therapeutics in partner countries in Asia and Africa.
During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Ramers took leadership roles in policy, laboratory, public health, research and clinical response. He served on the county Clinical Vaccine Advisory Committee and Equity task forces, the national IDSA-CDC clinical call escalation volunteer group, and is became a co-principal investigator on two NIH-sponsored research trials on prevention of household COVID-19 transmission and addressing vaccine hesitance in Latinx populations. He facilitated a nationwide COVID-19 outpatient therapeutics webinar series supported by HHS and Project ECHO, and continues to lead a CDC-supported national webinar series on long COVID. Internationally, he facilitated a Spanish-language COVID-19 virtual community of practice for Latin America and presented at WHO African region webinars on SARS-CoV-2 transmission.