Kenneth S. Ramos, M.D. - Kenneth S. Ramos, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed associate vice president for precision health sciences at the Arizona Health Sciences Center at the University of Arizona. He joined the UA March 17.

Ramos will develop precision health strategies and approaches. He also will lead development of personal diagnostics and therapeutics for complex diseases including cancer, cardiopulmonary disorders and diabetes.

Ramos is internationally recognized in genomics and predictive biology, environmental and molecular medicine and toxicology, UA officials said in a news release.

He also joins the faculty of the UA College of Medicine โ€” Tucson as professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine.

He was previously with the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center. He also was director of the Center for Genetics and Molecular Medicine and the Center for Environmental Genomics and Integrative Biology, and chief scientific adviser for the Clinical Trials Laboratory.

He has held faculty positions at Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Drexel University and the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

During his career he has received more than $50 million in research funding. He has been lead author in more than 220 published scientific journal articles.

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Ramos joins UA

Ramos joins UA

Kenneth S. Ramos, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed associate vice president for precision hea…