John C. Onate MD

Dr. Onate graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and trained in combined psychiatry and internal medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. He is Board Certified in both internal medicine and psychiatry and is currently the director of the Med-Psych Clinic at the Sacramento County Primary Care Center as well as a clinician at the CARES HIV treatment center. He supervises psychiatry residents in a unique outpatient internal medicine rotation, addressing the coordination of medical care in uninsured and indigent patients with mental illness.

He also coordinates psychiatric care in the Hepatitis C clinic at the Sacramento County Primary Care Center. Dr. Onate is strongly interested in the collaboration and integration of psychiatric care in primary care and disease management settings. He is active in medical student education as co-instructor of record for the first year medical school course, Doctoring One.