Rajam Ramamurthy MD

Dr. Rajam Ramamurthy, MD, is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas Health in San Antonio. Since 199I she served as a full-time tenured professor. She is the recipient of the outstanding faculty award from the class of 1983, the Presidential Teaching Award in 1991, and in 2013 UT Regents Outstanding Teaching Award (ROTA). Since 2000 she directed the Premature Infant Development Premier Program and is the first holder of the Rita & William Head Distinguished professorship in Environmental and Developmental Neonatology. At the beginning of her carrier, her research focused on the prevention and control of infections in the NICU and Neonatal Polycythemia. Later her research involved the Long -term development of very small premature infants. She was active in organized medicine. She is the first woman president of BCMS in 150 years. She chaired the Section on International Medical graduates of TMA and the AMA. She was the AMA appointee to the ECFMG Board of directors where she served for 8 years, advocating for the educational needs of International Medical Graduates. In 2018 she was given the Golden Aesculapius Award for outstanding services to the Bexar County Medical Society. She served as the Chair of the Board of trustees of AAPI, the national Indian physician’s organization. The pioneering work in India of Dr. Ramamurthy and another Indian neonatologist from the US contributed to the development of neonatology as a specialty in that country. In 2015 she received the outstanding alumnus award from her alma mater, The Bangalore Medical College, Rajeev Gandhi University. She retired on September 30, 2014, and was reappointed as Professor Emeritus in the Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics. She is now actively involved in prematurity-related research. The Ramamurthys have established two endowments at UTHSCSA and an endowment for dance at UTSA and have supported the TMA Minority Scholarship Fund that benefits a medical students in UTHSCSA, for the past 12 years.