Ramona Snipes, MD
Ramona Snipes, MD, is the chief compliance officer and assistant executive medical director of Permanente Human Resources and People and Culture for the Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG).
SCPMG is one of the largest self-governing medical groups in the country, consisting of more than 7,800 physicians caring for nearly 4.7 million Kaiser Permanente members in 234 medical office buildings and 15 hospitals across Southern California.
In her role as chief compliance officer, Dr. Snipes collaborates closely with SCPMG general counsel and legal team; Permanente Human Resources; Internal Audit; Business Systems and Reporting; key leaders across KFHP/H; and our medical center service areas to further develop a strong compliance program that reflects our SCPMG culture of ethics, high integrity, and patient-centered perspective.
As assistant executive medical director, Dr. Snipes works with Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity; Physician Wellness; and Physician and Physician Leader Development teams providing oversight to ensure the execution of strategic programs in the key areas of people and culture.
Dr. Snipes joined Kaiser Permanente Southern California in 2008 and became a partner physician with SCPMG in 2011, serving as chief of service for the Emergency Department at San Bernardino County Medical Center, where she also served as the physician liaison for disaster planning and triage. Before assuming her current position in January 2019, Dr. Snipes had also served as the assistant area medical director of the Hospital-Based Service Line at the Kaiser Permanente San Bernardino Medical Centers since 2016.
Dr. Snipes received her bachelor’s degree at Oakwood College in Alabama before receiving her medical degree in 1999 from Loma Linda University. She completed her emergency medicine residency at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 2003. Prior to her time at Kaiser Permanente, Dr. Snipes was a physician, and later partner physician, at Emergency Physicians of Tidewater in Virginia and also held an associate clinical professorship in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School. She is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the California American College of Emergency Physicians, and the San Bernardino County Medical Society.
In her downtime, Dr. Snipes enjoys science fiction, reading, and comedy. Her favorite way of spending a day is at the beach with her favorite people – her husband of 20 years and her 2 daughters.
