Anu Ramachandran, MD, MPH

Dr. Anu Ramachandran is an emergency medicine specialist who cares for children and adults with a broad range of conditions requiring immediate attention, such as heart attacks, strokes and traumatic injuries. With a background in public health and medical informatics, she approaches treatment by looking at patients' physical needs in the broader context of their lives.

In her research, Ramachandran is interested in how to use emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, to improve access to timely emergency care, particularly for vulnerable communities during environmental disasters, such as wildfires, heat waves and other extreme weather events. Her studies harness big data to examine how location-specific environmental exposures relate to immediate health outcomes. She wants to improve scientific understanding of who ends up in emergency departments during environmental disasters and how technology can prevent adverse health outcomes and empower resilient communities.

Ramachandran earned her medical degree at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. While in medical school, she studied as a Marshall Scholar at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and earned a master of public health degree. She completed a residency in emergency medicine at UCSF, with training at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, followed by a fellowship in medical informatics at Stanford University and the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Ramachandran is a Bay Area native. In her free time, she loves hiking, making ceramics and gardening.