Sonia Oyola, MD

2020 Associate Junior Faculty Scholars

Sonia Oyola, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and currently serves as the Medical Education Director, Clerkship Director and co-director of the Culinary Medicine Programs for the University of Chicago’s Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Oyola earned her MD from the University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Chicago in 1997 before pursuing her residency in Family Medicine at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. She is an Andrew Weil Integrative Medicine Fellow and has Homeopathy Certification through the Center for Education and Development of Homeopathy. Her clinical practice is at Heartland Health Centers where she provides Primary Integrative Family Medicine and Integrative Medicine Consults. For her work to promote, trauma-informed care, social justice and challenge inequities in health and health care, Dr. Oyola was recently selected as an awardee from the Health & Medicine Policy Research Group, and has been identified by Pritzker students to receive the Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s Leonard Tow Award, a nomination for the AAMC Humanism in Medicine Award and most recently, been inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA) Honor Medical Society AΩA Society. Additionally, Dr. Oyola is the Founder and President of the Chicago domestic violence non-profit, Be Alright, since 2009.