2025 McGehee Lecture by JHU Nurse Scientist and Professor Vincent Guilamo-Ramos

2025 McGehee Lecture

Redesigning the U.S.'s Broken Health System
The nursing profession's role in ending unequal treatment

by Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, MPH, LCSW, RN, ANP-BC, PMHNP-BC, FAAN

April 16, 2025
12-1 PM

• Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium
• Via Zoom

UVA School of Nursing is pleased to announce that Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, a leading scholar in social determinants of health, adolescent mental and sexual health, and a Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing nurse scientist, has been chosen to be the 2025 McGehee Lecturer.

Guilamo-Ramos is executive director of Johns Hopkins University's Institute for Policy Solutions and is the Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Founding director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health, he is also a nurse practitioner dually licensed in adult health and psychiatric-mental health nursing. 

Guilamo-Ramos develops, evaluates, and translates family-based adolescent and young adult sexual and reproductive health interventions, and has earned funding from the NIH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health Resources and Services Administration. His research focuses on the roles families play in promoting health and preventing HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, and improving care outcomes for young people who receive HIV prevention and care services.

Before teaching at JHU, Guilamo-Ramos was a tenured professor at Duke University School of Nursing, New York University, and Columbia University. He currently serves on the board of UnidosUS, the nation's largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization, and previously served as co-chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.

About the McGehee Lecture

Named for the late Catherine Strader McGehee, a UVA School of Nursing alumna who earned both a BSN and MSN and was enrolled in the School's PhD program when she died of breast cancer in 1999, the McGehee Lecture provides a forum for distinguished clinicians, experts, and leaders who share the same qualities Cathy demonstrated in her life: a firm commitment to community, nursing excellence and education, and an unwavering desire to help their fellow human beings. The lecture was endowed by the Strader and McGehee families as well as Cathy's classmates in the BSN Class of 1975.

The McGehee Lecture, which takes place at the School of Nursing each spring, is free and open to the public.