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Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale University
PhD, Nursing - Informatics Specialization, Columbia University
MS, Family Nurse Practitioner, Purdue University
MBA, Management, Purdue University
BS, Nursing, Purdue University

Persons living with HIV/AIDS, emerging adult MSM, informatics strategies, user-centric design, informed decision-making, technology utilization

S. Raquel Ramos is a board-certified family nurse practitioner with over a decade of direct patient-care nursing experience.  This includes medical and cardiac ICU, cardiac catheterization lab, intermediate cardiac care, long-term care, LGBT community health, and clinical research nursing. She is a certified HIV testing counselor.

Dr. Ramos’ program of research focuses on technology utilization to facilitate informed decision making for PLWH and those at risk of HIV.  As part of her dissertation, user-centric techniques facilitated the design of a user interface to help patients at a HIV clinic make more informed decisions about consenting to electronically share their health records.  As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Ramos was awarded a NIH administrative supplemental grant and traveled to Ghana to explore how literacy and numeracy influenced the decision-making abilities of Ghanaian caregivers of children living with HIV. Recently, she was awarded NIH pilot funding through the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University to design and test an intervention with young adult MSM interested in HIV self-testing.

Recent

40 Under 40 Leaders in Health Awards Winners for 2016

Raquel Ramos was named a 40 under 40 Leader in Health Awards for 2016 by the National Minority Quality Forum.