Rachel Ramoni, DMD, ScD, is director of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research. She became director in February 2025.
Rachel came to DOR after 8 years as Chief Research and Development Officer of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. At VA, she led an ambitious project to integrate more than 100 VA medical centers into a more efficient single enterprise. She also held leadership roles with the VA’s Million Veteran Program, on the VA Precision Oncology executive committee, and the White House’s National Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End Suicide, among others. She also served on the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) advisory council.
Previously, Rachel founded and led the Undiagnosed Diseases Network coordinating center. She also led the Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies (SMART) project, an innovative effort to facilitate the sharing of electronic health information.
Her publications have appeared in Birth Defects Research, Epidemiology, Circulation, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Human Genetics, and numerous other journals. As a grant reviewer, she has served on the Special Emphasis Panel at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.
Rachel received a Doctor of Science in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health and a Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She held faculty positions at the Harvard Medical and Dental Schools, at Boston Children’s Hospital, and the New York University College of Dentistry.
Current Positions
- Director, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research
Primary Research Interests
- Research strategy and infrastructure
- Organizational effectiveness in research
- Learning health systems
