Shayann Ramedani MD, MEd, is a graduating physician-educator candidate from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. During his medical education, Dr. Ramedani was recognized for his impact to Penn State Health, a five-hospital academic health system spanning 10 counties with 126 practices in Central Pennsylvania.
Throughout his education, Dr. Ramedani pursued a focus on quality improvement methodologies in healthcare. His work alongside the capacity throughput council and operations excellence department of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center provided key analysis to identify issues with bed placement and operative throughput. This led Dr. Ramedani to be accepted as one of five health systems science scholars in his class, a position that gives chosen students enhanced training on quality improvement, safety, and leadership. His capstone project investigated throughput barriers within cardio-anesthesia and cardiothoracic surgery. Dr. Ramedani has also published research in surgical quality improvement focused on post-operative biopsy infection and antibiotic stewardship.
Dr. Ramedani has also had a pivotal role in bridging health disparities and providing safe, high-quality care to underserved populations in Central Pennsylvania. In 2018, he co-founded SCOPE, a nonprofit free clinic network. SCOPE utilizes a novel decentralized clinical model and deployment algorithm to evaluate surrounding communities for gaps in care and provides curated clinical resources based on need. By collaborating with a mix of community leaders and executive leadership, he secured funding and logistics partnerships from the Dauphin County government and Penn State Health. Dr. Ramedani has also assisted in existing free clinics on quality improvement measures and published on timing interventions in high volume multi-specialty clinic events. For these efforts, Dr. Ramedani was a faculty-nominated finalist for the Dellasega Award in 2021, given to students championing the pursuit of humanistic medicine. He was also a faculty-nominated finalist for the Woodward Center Student Educator Award for his work in student and faculty education in this realm.
Outside of medical education, Dr. Ramedani is a digital health and strategy fellow at NODE Health, a nonprofit based in New York City that focuses on digital health evaluation, education, and strategic use. As a fellow, Dr. Ramedani has authored digital health content, peer-reviewed literature, and assisted in the development of the Digital Medicine University, an education platform to help clinicians and health leaders understand and utilize digital health and therapeutics. He has also been a researcher for the Penn State Clinical Translational Science Institute, working on public health research in the realms of diseases of despair and hospital closures. In 2020, he was awarded the Ballentine endowment for medical students in the arts for his visual work on health disparities research.
Before medical school, Dr. Ramedani served as a junior consultant in Lean and performance excellence for the Johns Hopkins Health System under the Armstrong Institute. He consulted patient care services to improve housewide throughput, quality assurance, and patient safety within the Washington, D.C., area.