Dr. Ana Ramirez is an Assistant Clinical Professor and Director of the Pediatric Program at the UCSD Eating Disorders Center. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Texas A&M University and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the UCSD Eating Disorders Center. Dr. Ramirez is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in the state of CA and a certified bilingual (Spanish) provider. She has conducted individual, family, and group therapy for eating disorders in the Adult, Adolescent, and Pediatric programs at the UCSD Eating Disorders Center. Dr. Ramirez has training in Family-Based Treatment, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Exposure/Response Prevention for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Dr. Ramirez supervises clinical trainees in the Adolescent and Pediatric programs. Her research interests include treatment development, evaluation, and outcomes, and the adaptation of available treatments for culturally diverse patient populations; she has published multiple papers and book chapters in these areas. Her passion is working to ensure that ethnic minorities have equal access to evidence-based treatments.