Ramiro Zúñiga, MD, MBA, FAAFP, CHIE

Ramiro Zúñiga is the Vice President, Medical Director for Medi-Cal at Health Net. In this role, Dr. Zúñiga has leadership and oversight responsibilities for the contractual, compliance, and regulatory requirements for the Medi-Cal line of business. He also provides strategic and operational direction for quality, utilization management, and administrative/clinical policies, procedures, and programs. Prior to joining Health Net, Dr. Zúñiga was Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, Residency Program Director, and a member of the Board of Trustees at San Joaquin General Hospital in Stockton.

Ramiro is a Volunteer Clinical Professor at the Department of Family and Community Medicine of the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Latino Medical Association (SaLMA), co-leads the Northern California Chapter and serves in the Corporate Advisory Board of the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA), and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Archstone Foundation.

Ramiro earned his M.D. from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, in Bogotá, Colombia and completed his Family Medicine Residency at St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital Center in Chicago. He received an MBA degree from the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. He is board certified in family medicine and licensed in California, where he has practiced in underserved settings for over 25 years.