NHMA Northern California Chapter

Chapter Leadership

Ramiro Zuniga, MD Chapter Chair
Ramiro Zúñiga, MD, MBA, FAAFP

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.

Jessica Nunez de Ybarra, MD

Chapter Co-Chair
Jessica Nunez de Ybarra, MD, MPH

Jessica Núñez de Ybarra, MD, MPH, FACPM (pronouns: she, her, ella) currently serves as the Co-Chair of the National Hispanic Medical Association Northern California Chapter. Jessica is Board Certified in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine. She also serves as President of the Sacramento Latino Medical Association.

She currently serves as the Community Health Medical Administrator providing technical assistance and supporting the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Office of Policy and Planning to plan, develop, and align the Department’s specific goals and strategies for academic partnerships and community health investments and improvement efforts, such as identifying and adopting financing models that pay for prevention strategies focused on the most vulnerable populations in California. She also serves as the CDPH Designated Institutional Official for Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Jessica previously served as the Chronic Disease Control Branch (CDCB) Chief in the CDPH. In 2014, in CDCB she and a multi-disciplinary team authored the California Wellness Plan, the state chronic disease prevention and health promotion plan - a detailed road map for CDPH and its partners to promote health, eliminate preventable chronic disease and promote health equity. Jessica previously worked in CDPH’s Division of Communicable Disease Control facilitating internal public health communications, training, and preparedness activities to address emerging infectious public health threats, including establishing and overseeing the CDPH Laboratory Directors Training Program (LabAspire from 2006 to 2012).