Dr. Nilsa Ramirez
Pediatrics Division at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Director of the Biopathology Center
Nationwide Foundation Endowed Chair in Pediatric Pathology
Professor of Clinical Pathology at The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Medicine
Dr. Nilsa Ramirez is a member of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital (NCH), the Director of the Biopathology Center (BPC) housed at the NCH's Abigail Wexner Research Institute, the Nationwide Foundation Endowed Chair in Pediatric Pathology, a Professor of Clinical Pathology at The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Medicine, and a member of the Translational Therapeutics Program of the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center-James. She is board-certified in anatomic pathology with subspecialty training in gynecologic pathology, and she is an expert in biorepository oversight, operations, and utilization. At the BPC, she participates in the leadership of several biobanking efforts, including those of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-sponsored biobanks of SWOG, the Children's Oncology Group (COG), NRG Oncology-Columbus, and the Early-Phase and Experimental Clinical Trials Network. She is the PI of the Pediatric Division of the Cooperative Human Tissue Network. From 2010 -2016 she was the Pathology Operations Director of the BPC-based Biospecimen Core Resource of The Cancer Genome Atlas. She represents the SWOG and COG biobanks at the Group Banking Committee of the NCI's Cancer Diagnosis Program. At the College of American Pathologists (CAP), she is a member of the Biorepository Accreditation Program (BAP) Committee and the BAP National Commissioner; in September 2019, she received a CAP Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to pathology and her efforts to establish the BAP. She is the CAP representative and convenor of the USA Mirror Working Group 2 (Biobank and Bioresources) for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/Technical Committee 276; in this role, she contributed to the development of several biobanking-related ISO standards (including ISO 20387:2018).
