IPS ED to provide commencement address at UCSF SON

Professor Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, RN, FAAN, executive director of the Institute for Policy Solutions (IPS) at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, will provide the keynote commencement address at the upcoming University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing (UCSF-SON) graduation ceremony in May. 

“I’m deeply honored to speak to the UCSF SON community and graduates at this moment in history when our leadership as nurses is so vital, to protect and promote the overall health and wellbeing of our nation,” Dr. Guilamo-Ramos said. “It’s also a privilege to be with the next generation of nurses as they mark this important milestone in their lives.”

Along with leading IPS, Guilamo-Ramos is the Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and founding Director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health. A noted champion of making the invisible visible — from eliminating health inequities as a sustainable fix for the U.S. broken health system to offering evidence-based prevention and care solutions to the Latino HIV crisis — Guilamo-Ramos is a transformative leader in the development and evaluation of scalable clinical and social care models that eliminate health inequities and address harmful social determinants of health. He’s also an influencer within the area of sexual and reproductive health. Published extensively in leading scientific journals, his scholarship has led to coverage in media such as CNN, The New York Times, NPR, and The Washington Post. First and foremost, he is a nurse practitioner who’s committed to optimal health for all. 

Prior to his appointment at IPS in January 2024, Guilamo-Ramos was the dean and vice chancellor for nursing affairs at Duke University School of Nursing. In addition, he has held tenured faculty appointments at New York University (NYU) and Columbia University prior to joining NYU. He served as co-chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and was a member of the ad hoc NASEM Committee on Unequal Treatment Revisited: The Current State of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare. Currently, Guilamo-Ramos serves on the Board of UnidosUS, the largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the nation.

The UCSF SON 2025 Commencement Ceremony takes place on May 28, 2025, 7:30 p.m. PT (10:30 p.m. ET)  at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. A livestream link to view the event will be available here on the day.