B. Alan Rampy, D.O., Ph.D.

Alan Rampy is an associate professor with appointments in the departments of Diagnostic Medicine and Medical Education at Dell Medical School. His educational background includes a doctorate in neuroscience and cognition and a Bachelor of Arts in experimental psychology, both from The University of Texas at Dallas. He further earned the degree of Doctor of Osteopathy at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, and he holds national certification as an anatomic pathologist with the American Board of Pathology.

As assistant dean of undergraduate medical education, foundational sciences, Rampy guides foundational science faculty and education efforts, working closely with Dell Med leadership to advance strategic education goals. As part of this effort, he also is director of the Scientific Foundations Committee, a sub-committee of the Dell Medical School Curriculum Committee. Rampy is co-director of the first-year course, Mechanisms of Disease, an integrated 15-week pathophysiology course that introduces the practice of fundamental clinical medicine in the context of underlying associated pathophysiology and foundational science.

Rampy is an active member of the Digital Pathology Association Education Committee, and as such has served as program contributor and lead for the DPA virtual symposium for 2022 and 2023. He also served for several years as a member of the College of American Pathologists Digital Pathology Committee, a group charged to advance the adoption of digital pathology, and to serve as a respected resource for information and education for pathologists and others on the practice and science of digital pathology.

Rampy has years of previous clinical experience as an attending autopsy pathologist at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and as deputy medical examiner for Galveston County, Texas. Rampy continues to publish in the domains of anatomic pathology and education and is currently a fellow for the College of American Pathologists. In addition to spending quality time with his family, he enjoys running, cooking, gardening and music.

“In examining a disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”
– Oliver Sacks