Rose Onyeali, MD

Rose Onyeali, MD is a clinical associate hospitalist in the Internal Medicine Department at Pennsylvania Hospital and recent graduate of the Geriatrics fellowship program at the University of Pennsylvania. While in medical school, she led the community outreach program for the Student National Medical Association (SNMA). She moved to Philadelphia to complete her residency in Internal Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where she was an active member of the hospital’s Ethics Committee, co-founded the Women in Medicine program for the Internal Medicine Residency, and actively contributed to the Jefferson Alliance for Minority Health. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Health Policy Research at Penn. Her research, which is supported by a Penn CICADA grant, focuses on transitions of care for formerly incarcerated individuals with cognitive and functional impairment. She was born and raised in Denver, Colorado and studied medicine at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.