Dr. Sarah Ramer hails originally from the Kingston, Ontario area, and completed her Bachelor of Science at Queen’s University in 1997. She attended the University of Calgary for medical school, and then made the journey east for residency in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia.

After finishing her Cardiology training, Dr. Ramer completed an echocardiography fellowship at Mount Sinai hospital in Toronto, where her focus was exercise stress echocardiography.

She returned to work at the QEII in Halifax in November 2007.

Dr. Ramer served as program director for the adult cardiology residency training program from 2012 to 2019, and is now Education Director for the division of Cardiology at Dalhousie University.

She is a prior member of the board of directors of the Canadian Society of Echocardiography and currently serves as the Atlantic Canadian representative on the board of directors of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society.