Richard J. Kramer

Short Summary: Retired Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Gastroenterology at Stanford University & Associate Chief of Gastroenterology at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, CA. Private practice 25 years, full-time Stanford affiliate hospitals clinical teacher for 12 years, moved to 2021. A Fellow of American Gastroenterology Association. Initiated and currently organizes & leads the highly successful Mentoring Program for ASU Premedical students.  Also, works as the Medical Consultant to CapsoVision, a California company that has produced a new technological Small Bowel Capsule. Teaches Medical Continuing Education Courses on Cruise Ships.

About Richard Jay Kramer, M.D.:

I was born in Morristown, New Jersey.  I lived in New Jersey until 13 years old, when my father and mother moved me and my only sister. I graduated High School from U.S. Grant High School in North Hollywood, CA in 1965 and attended premed at UCLA Becoming a physician and had been my goal since age 6! I received a Regent's Scholarship for UCLA and another when I was accepted in 1968 at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, where I received several awards and was accepted to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.

I was married to wonderful women in 1970 and pleased that we just celebrated our 53rd Anniversary, and have five grandchildren, ages 7-25 y.o. They are all the delight of our lives!!

I graduated with my MD in 1978. My Rotating Internship was done at Harbor General Hospital, Torrance, California. I then went on to my Internal Medicine Residency for 3 years at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Joes, California, and then 2 years of GI Fellowship at Stanford University. Subsequently, I practiced GI in private Practice for 25 years in San Jose / Los Gatos, California.  During my time in practice, I served the Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose in many capacities: Chairman of the Dept. of Medicine, Chairman of the Division of Gastroenterology, Chairman of the ICU Committee, and Chairman of the Credentials Committee.

I remained a private volunteer attending physician for those 25 years at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in the GI Division and maintained my association with Stanford's GI Division.

In 2003, I decided to retire my private practice and was asked to join the GI Faculty at Santa Clara Valley medical Center in San Jose, CA, as part of the Stanford University GI Faculty. I have the extreme pleasure of working with the house staff in the GI Division in clinical teaching. Before retirement, as a faculty member, I monitored and developed our Nurse Practitioners & developed their protocols, run the Hepatitis Clinic, and help manage the Billing/Coding details and Quality Assurance activities for our Division.

Favorite hobbies include reading, travel, magic, attending live theater and enjoying my grandchildren.

Move to Mirabella at ASU in November, 2021, and I am the Chairman of the Health Advisory Committee, in addition to taking courses at ASU, mentoring the Premedical Students, a new highly successful program teaching premedical students real life medicine, as opposed to classroom didactic science.