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Chief Scientific Officer
Norton Healthcare
Disclosure(s): Pfizer: Julio Ramirez is an employee of Norton Healthcare (Louisville, KY), which received fees from Pfizer in relation to this study.
Julio Ramirez, MD, FACP is the Chief Scientific Officer at the Norton Infectious Diseases Institute at Norton Healthcare, in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Divison of Infectious Diseases at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). He is board-certified in internal medicine and holds subspecialty certification in infectious diseases.
Dr. Ramirez’s areas of clinical and translational research include community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), influenza, and emerging respiratory pathogens. Dr. Ramirez is directing the research activities of the Norton Infectious Diseases Institute. Dr. Ramirez’s research activities have received funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Defense (DoD), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr.Ramirez has more than 250 peer-reviewed publications. He is also a reviewer for several journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and Annals of Internal Medicine. Dr. Ramirez is currently the Section Editor on pulmonary infections for the evidence-based clinical decision support Up-to-date.
Dr. Ramirez served as a member of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) committee for the development of national guidelines for the management of CAP, and more recently, on the ATS International Task Force guidelines for the management of COVID-19. He also served as a member of the Food and Drug Administration advisory committee for the approval of anti-infective drugs. Dr. Ramirez is the recipient of the 2013 European Respiratory Society Presidential Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to research in the field of respiratory infections. Dr. Ramirez is the co-chair for the current ATS-IDSA national guidelines committee for the management of CAP.