Haiyan Ramirez Batlle, MD, MS, BS

Assistant Professor

Haiyan "Hai" Ramirez Batlle hails from Puerto Rico and completed his undergraduate studies in Biology and Philosophy at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez. While attending medical school at Brown University, he was involved in implementing the Affordable Care Act in Rhode Island, focusing on outreach and enrollment in Spanish-speaking communities. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where he deepened his commitment to health equity and primary care.

From 2019 to 2023, Hai served as a primary care physician at San Quentin State Prison during the COVID-19 pandemic, an experience that solidified his dedication to caring for structurally vulnerable populations. In 2023, he joined the Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Program at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, where he operates at the intersection of public health and clinical care. In 2024, after becoming board-certified in addiction medicine, he began seeing patients at Bridge Clinic and is particularly enthusiastic about continuing to provide trauma-informed, language-concordant care to Spanish-speaking individuals and others affected by substance use.
Education
Residency, 2019 - Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Internship, 2017 - Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
MD, 2016 - , Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Master, 2012 - Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid
BS, 2009 - Biology, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
Honors and Awards
  • Amos Throop Prize in Health Policy, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 2016
  • Inductee, Arnold Gold Humanism Honor Society, 2016
  • Petersen Educational Enhancement Fund Award, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 2015
  • Benjamin H. Kean Travel Fellowship in Tropical Medicine, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2015
  • Magna Cum Laude, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, 2009
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Publications

  1. Murrill MT, Velásquez GE, Szumowski JD, Phillips A, Kim A, Yazdany J, Roberts ET, Habib AR, Ramirez Batlle H, Salazar J, Minter DJ, Louie JK, Ernst JD. Tuberculosis infection screening recommendations for targeted immunotherapies: comparison of U.S. prescribing information, clinical resources and quality measures. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025. PMID: 40778184


  2. Ramirez Batlle H, Grant J. Hard lessons we learned from the COVID-19 tragedy at San Quentin prison Los Angeles Times 2020. PMID:


  3. Howell B, Ramirez Batlle H, Ahalt C, Shavit S, Augustine D, Wang E, Zaller N, Williams B. Protecting Decarcerated Populations In The Era of COVID-19: Priorities For Emergency Discharge Planning Health Affairs Blog 2020. PMID:


  4. Batlle HR, Klompas M, CDC Prevention Epicenters Program. Accuracy and reliability of electronic versus CDC surveillance criteria for non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia. Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2020. PMID: 31818337


  5. Ramirez Batlle H, DeFilippis EM, Givertz MM. Testing Medical Fairness: Incarceration and Eligibility for Advanced Heart Failure Therapies. Circulation. Heart failure 2019. PMID: 31805783


  6. Eberly LA, Richterman A, Beckett AG, Wispelwey B, Marsh RH, Cleveland Manchanda EC, Chang CY, Glynn RJ, Brooks KC, Boxer R, Kakoza R, Goldsmith J, Loscalzo J, Morse M, Lewis EF, Abel S, Adams A, Anaya J, Andrews EH, Atkinson B, Avutu V, Bachorik A, Badri O, Bailey M, Baird K, Bakshi S, Balaban D, Barshop K, Baumrin E, Bayomy O, Beamesderfer J, Becker N, Berg DD, Berman AN, Blum SM, Boardman AP, Boden K, Bonacci RA, Brown S, Campbell K, Case S, Cetrone E, Charrow A, Chiang D, Clark D, Cohen AJ, Cooper A, Cordova T, Cuneo CN, de Feria AA, Deffenbacher K, DeFilippis EM, DeGregorio G, Deutsch AJ, Diephuis B, Divakaran S, Dorschner P, Downing N, Drescher C, D'Silva KM, Dunbar P, Duong D, Earp S, Eckhardt C, Elman SA, England R, Everett K, Fedotova N, Feingold-Link T, Ferreira M, Fisher H, Foo P, Foote M, Franco I, Gilliland T, Greb J, Greco K, Grewal S, Grin B, Growdon ME, Guercio B, Hahn CK, Hasselfeld B, Haydu EJ, Hermes Z, Hildick-Smith G, Holcomb Z, Holroyd K, Horton L, Huang G, Jablonski S, Jacobs D, Jain N, Japa S, Joseph R, Kalashnikova M, Kalwani N, Kang D, Karan A, Katz JT, Kellner D, Kidia K, Kim JH, Knowles SM, Kolbe L, Kore I, Koullias Y, Kuye I, Lang J, Lawlor M, Lechner MG, Lee K, Lee S, Lee Z, Limaye N, Lin-Beckford S, Lipsyc M, Little J, Loewenthal J, Logaraj R, Lopez DM, Loriaux D, Lu Y, Ma K, Marukian N, Matias W, Mayers JR, McConnell I, McLaughlin M, Meade C, Meador C, Mehta A, Messenger E, Michaelidis C, Mirsky J, Mitten E, Mueller A, Mullur J, Munir A, Murphy E, Nagami E, Natarajan A, Nsahlai M, Nze C, Okwara N, Olds P, Paez R, Pardo M, Patel S, Petersen A, Phelan L, Pimenta E, Pipilas D, Plovanich M, Pong D, Powers BW, Rao A, Ramirez Batlle H, Ramsis M, Reichardt A, Reiger S, Rengarajan M, Rico S, Rome BN, Rosales R, Rotenstein L, Roy A, Royston S, Rozansky H, Rudder M, Ryan CE, Salgado S, Sanchez P, Schulte J, Sekar A, Semenkovich N, Shannon E, Shaw N, Shorten AB, Shrauner W, Sinnenberg L, Smithy JW, Snyder G, Sreekrishnan A, Stabenau H, Stavrou E, Stergachis A, Stern R, Stone A, Tabrizi S, Tanyos S, Thomas C, Thun H, Torres-Lockhart K, Tran A, Treasure C, Tsai FD, Tsaur S, Tschirhart E, Tuwatananurak J, Venkateswaran RV, Vishnevetsky A, Wahl L, Wall A, Wallace F, Walsh E, Wang P, Ward HB, Warner LN, Weeks LD, Weiskopf K, Wengrod J, Williams JN, Winkler M, Wong JL, Worster D, Wright A, Wunsch C, Wynter JS, Yarbrough C, Yau WY, Yazdi D, Yeh J, Yialamas MA, Yozamp N, Zambrotta M, Zon R. Identification of Racial Inequities in Access to Specialized Inpatient Heart Failure Care at an Academic Medical Center. Circulation. Heart failure 2019. PMID: 31658831


  7. Ji W, McKenna C, Ochoa A, Ramirez Batlle H, Young J, Zhang Z, Rhee C, Clark R, Shenoy ES, Hooper D, Klompas M, CDC Prevention Epicenters Program. Development and Assessment of Objective Surveillance Definitions for Nonventilator Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. JAMA network open 2019. PMID: 31626321


  8. Lee J, Azzawi S, Peluso MJ, Richterman A, Batlle HR, Yialamas MA. Smear Campaign: Misattribution of Pancytopenia to a Tick-Borne Illness. Journal of general internal medicine 2017. PMID: 29273895


  9. Brooks K, Stifani B, Batlle HR, Nunez MA, Erlich M, Diaz J. Patient Perspectives on the Need for and Barriers to Professional Medical Interpretation. Rhode Island medical journal (2013) 2016. PMID: 26726861


  10. Brooks K, Karp L, Batlle HR, Chiu M, Montross C. A Student Collaboration to Address Mental Health Wellness in Medical School. Rhode Island medical journal (2013) 2015. PMID: 26125475


  11. Ramirez Batlle H, Goldman RE, Logroño A, Diaz JA

    2016;9(4):Article 8.. Healthcare reform in Latino Rhode Island: Perspectives of Spanish speakers and insurance navigators J Health Dispar Res Pract 2015. PMID:


  12. Ajmal S, Rapoport S, Ramirez Batlle H, Mazzaglia PJ. The natural history of the benign thyroid nodule: what is the appropriate follow-up strategy? Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2014. PMID: 25667137