Patrick S Ramsey, MD MSPH

Dr. Ramsey serves as the Chief of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Director of our Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship training program. He also serves as the Director for the “Stork One” Maternal Transport program, Co-Director for the University Hospital/UT Center for Placenta Accreta Spectrum Disorders, and Maternal Medical Director for the University Hospital Level IV Maternal Center.

Dr. Ramsey completed his medical school training at the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine in 1994 and residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, MN in 1998.  He completed a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2001. He also received a Master of Science in Public Health with emphasis in Epidemiology/International Health in 2003. He is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine and serves as an oral board examiner for the ABOG. He is an active member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM), Infectious Disease Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology (IDSOG), among others. He is a graduate of the ACOG Leadership Institute and SMFM Leadership Academy.

Dr. Ramsey is the founder and former co-director for the annual ACOG Medical Student John Gibbons Memorial Lecture and ACOG Medical Student Workshop program. He currently serves in several regional, state, and national leadership roles as Chief Medical Officer for the Texas Collaborative for Healthy Mothers and Babies (TCHMB), Chair of the Texas Medical Association Committee on Reproductive, Women’s and Perinatal Committee,  Secretary/Program Chair and member of IDSOG Council, member of the SMFM Fellowship Affairs Committee, member of the Texas Perinatal Advisory Council, and member of the Texas Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Task Committee.

As an active researcher and educator, he has received numerous awards and accolades including the ACOG Mentor of the Year Award, Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) Excellence in Teaching Award, and the ACOG Medical Student Recruitment Award.  He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in major journals. His research interests are clinical trials, prevention of preterm birth, labor management, infectious diseases, prevention of maternal morbidity/mortality, and management of medical/surgical complications of pregnancy.