Marina Ramirez, MD, FAAP

After graduating from Union College in Schenectady, New York and Albany Medical College in Albany, Dr. Lee completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine and an Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition Fellowship at The University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. Dr. Lee then joined the faculty at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans for three years before joining Kelsey-Seybold Clinic in April of 2000. Dr. Lee is director of the Primary Prevention Lipid Clinic (PPLC). The mission of the PPLC is to improve the quality of care provided to Kelsey-Seybold patients with diabetes and dyslipidemia who don't have a history of cardiovascular disease. The PPLC is also designed to help patients with difficult-to-treat dyslipidemia, a disruption in the amount of lipids in the blood, reach their targeted cholesterol goals.

Emily is an Advanced Nurse practitioner with a bachelor's degree in psychology from Prairie View A&M and a Master of Science degree in nursing from the UT Arlington School of Nursing. Emily's clinical interests include family medicine, geriatrics, hematology and oncology. She works to make sure her patients see her as caring and compassionate. Her rich experience working in oncology and geriatrics has made her an excellent communicator and is an expert at working with physicians to help her patients find success through their care plan. She joined Kelsey-Seybold in 2023.