Joel L. Ramirez, MD, is the inaugural UCSF Integrated Vascular Surgery resident. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of California, Irvine, where he graduated with Honors with a degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He then received his medical degree from the UCSF School of Medicine, graduating with Distinction in Clinical and Translation Research, and as a member of Alpha Omega Alpha.

As a medical student, Dr. Ramirez conducted an NIH-funded pre-doctoral research fellowship with the UCSF Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, under the mentorship of several faculty, including Dr. Marlene Grenon and Dr. Jade Hiramoto. As a medical student, he was the recipient of numerous other research fellowships, awards, and honors, including the American Medical Association Foundation Physicians of Tomorrow Award, the Society for Vascular Surgery Foundation Student Research Fellowship for two consecutive years, the American Heart Association Student Scholarship in Cardiovascular Disease, and the Association for Academic Surgery Senior Medical Student Award, among many others.

After medical school, Dr. Ramirez joined the UCSF Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery as the inaugural integrated vascular surgery resident. As the inaugural resident, he was intimately involved in mentorship and the development of the training and educational program. He then completed a post-doctoral research fellowship under the guidance of Dr. Michael Conte and Dr. Adam Oskowitz. During this fellowship, he worked to develop a clinical pipeline for vascular tissue, digestion, and transcriptomics analysis. His research was supported by the NIH, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, and the Bakar ImmunoX Initiative.