Professional experience & accomplishments

Veronica Rivera, MD completed her residency in Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco / San Francisco General Hospital program. She served an additional year as chief resident and then stayed at UCSF to complete a clinical geriatrics fellowship. In addition to seeing patients at the Family Health Center of Harlem, she also practices outpatient geriatrics at the Coffey Geriatrics Practice at Mount Sinai. Her interests include improving geriatrics education for family medicine trainees, improving geriatric care for underserved patients, and promoting a diverse medicine workforce.