Dr. Ramsey's clinical responsibilities include providing inpatient palliative care consultations at UPMC Shadyside and Magee-Womens Hospital. She primarily focuses her inpatient care to patients with advanced hematologic and solid-tumor malignancies. She also provides outpatient palliative care UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, where she serves as the Palliative Care Medical Director.
Dr. Ramsey currently holds the role of Subspecialty Education Coordinator within the Section of Palliative Care. Her overall aim is to further develop the education of palliative care amongst other specialties and to improve the quality of palliative care by creating continuing medical education curricula for practicing palliative care clinicians. As she is obtaining her Master's in Medical Education, her thesis is focused around improving palliative care clinicians' understanding of oncology to further the care for patients with advanced malignancies. She enjoys teaching the application of palliative care among all specialties and guiding newer trainees in the role of primary palliative care. She coordinates all graduate medical learners rotating through the palliative care clinical service and ensures optimal learning opportunities and resources.
- BS, Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Florida, 2009
- DO, LECOM-Bradenton, 2015
- Internal Medicine Residency, UPMC Presbyterian, 2018
- Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2021
Education & Training
Waterman BL, Ramsey SU, Whitsett MP, et al. Top ten tips palliative care clinicians should know about end-stage liver disease. J Palliat Med. 2021; 24(6):924-931.
Ramsey SU, Arnold RM. Prognostication in dementia. Handb Clin Neurol. 2022; 190:163-174.
