Rose Onyeali, MD

Rose Onyeali, MD, is an attending hospitalist at Pennsylvania Hospital and recent graduate of the Geriatrics Fellowship at University of Pennsylvania. She was born and raised in Denver, Colorado and studied medicine at University of Virginia in Charlottesville. While in medical school, she led the community outreach program for 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. During her fellowship, she observed gaps in the health care transitions of older incarcerated adults into the community, which led to her research interest in transitions of care of incarcerated adults with cognitive and functional impairment.