Amber L. Ramage, M.S.N., Ed.M., F.N.P.-B.C.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Amber L. Ramage serves as an assistant clinical professor for the Master of Science — Family Nurse Practitioner and Master of Health Services — Physician Assistant Studies degree programs at the UC Davis Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. In a unique clinician educator role, Amber divides her time between providing patient care at the Sacramento County Refugee Clinic and leading classroom instruction and mentoring for School of Nursing students.
With 15 years of experience as a family nurse practitioner, Ramage has focused her career primarily on caring for medically underserved and vulnerable populations. Prior to joining UC Davis, Ramage worked as a provider at a federally designated rural health clinic in California’s Central Valley, where she provided primary care for mostly Spanish-speaking multigenerational families, cared for migrant farmworkers and provided prenatal care to numerous emergency MediCal patients. Ramage has also served as a family nurse practitioner at the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, where she provided primary care for patients in homeless shelters and substance abuse treatment programs as well as at the Barbara McInnis House, a medical respite facility serving homeless patients with severe acute and chronic diseases. In her work in these diverse settings, Ramage precepted family nurse practitioner students and physician assistant students from UC Davis, the University of the Pacific, and the Boston College Connell School of Nursing.
In her mission to help underserved patients, Ramage is also passionate about global health. She has precepted both undergraduate nursing and graduate nurse practitioner students for the Boston College Connell School of Nursing’s Global Health Initiative in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua. She also volunteered mentoring Boston College nursing students and providing health care to underserved patients on a separate medical mission in Leogane, Haiti.
Ramage is fluent in Spanish and enjoys providing care to many of her patients in their native Spanish as well as working with students to improve their medical Spanish. She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Harvard College and a Master of Education in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She worked for six years for the federal government and in education before changing the direction of her career and earning a Master of Science in Nursing and Family Nurse Practitioner Degree from Boston College. Ramage earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree at UC San Francisco. As the first person in her family to graduate from college, she is keenly interested in the barriers faced by first-generation college students and in helping these students navigate and succeed in higher education.
Contact: email: alramage@health.ucdavis.edu
