Ramon Cancino, MD, MBA, MS, FAAFP

Ramon Cancino, MD, MBA, MS, FAAFP, is a professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and in the Department of Health Policy and Health Services Administration at The University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio. He serves as executive director of the UT Health Physicians Primary Care Centers, senior medical director of medical management, and co-chair of the Mays Cancer Center and UT Health San Antonio Joint Cancer Prevention and Screening Committee.

Cancino oversees seven primary care locations, delivering patient-centered, team-based care to the diverse population of San Antonio and South Texas. These practices are staffed by academic primary care clinicians, including family medicine and internal medicine clinicians, pediatricians, primary care sports medicine physicians, geriatricians, clinical psychologists, nurse practitioners and physician assistants. He works closely with senior leadership to guide primary care and value-based care strategy and oversees the primary care medical directors who lead UT Health San Antonio’s primary care practices.

He also manages cancer prevention and screening activities at UT Health San Antonio and co-leads a committee of all medical specialties involved with cancer screening, focusing on health equity issues affecting the community. He currently oversees a multidisciplinary project to enhance lung cancer screening in partnership with the American Cancer Society and co-leads an effort to improve chronic disease management for patients undergoing active cancer treatment.

Before working at UT Health San Antonio, he was chief medical officer at a federally qualified health center in Boston. While there, he helped achieve the National Committee for Quality Assurance's Patient-Centered Medical Home accreditation, developed and implemented programs to integrate behavioral health and HIV/AIDS care into primary care, expanded primary care access, enhanced population health management programs for chronic disease and substance abuse in high-risk patient populations, developed a quality improvement program that drew national attention from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and developed local standards for measuring and reporting quality metrics to local, state, federal and private entities.

He received his medical degree from Northeast Ohio Medical University and completed his family medicine residency at Mayo Clinic. He received a Master of Science in health services research from Boston University School of Public Health and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has been invited to speak and teach his work in multiple local, state and national forums, including the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, Academy Health, Mayo Clinic, Boston University School of Medicine, the American Cancer Society and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.