Veronica Rivera, MD

Assistant Professor

Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine,

Medical Education and Family Medicine and Community Health

Associate Director, Martha Stewart Center for Living

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Veronica Rivera, MD graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA and then completed her residency in Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco / San Francisco General Hospital program, where she also served as chief resident.  She also completed a clinical geriatrics fellowship at UCSF. 

At Mount Sinai, she is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Family Medicine and Community Health, and Medical Education.  She practices outpatient medicine at the Coffey Geriatrics Practice, where she also serves as Associate Medical Director, and at the Family Health Center of Harlem.  Her interests include improving geriatrics education for family medicine trainees and improving geriatric care for underserved patients.