Sonia Sehgal, MD

Professor and Archstone Endowed Chair in Geriatrics

About Sonia Sehgal, MD

Dr. Sonia Sehgal is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology. She leads as the Assistant Chief and the Director of Medical Education for the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology.

As a medical educator, Dr. Sehgal is a leader at UC Irvine School of Medicine and serves as the Director of the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship and a Deans’ Scholar. She has been recognized for her teaching receiving the Excellence in Teaching Award annually from 2008-2016 and the MVP Outstanding Service Award from the Office of Educational Affairs of UCI School of Medicine. In 2010 the medical students selected Dr. Sehgal to receive the Gold Star Award from the Gold Humanism Honor Society.

Dr. Sehgal is a board-certified UCI Health Internist and Geriatrician who specializes in the care and treatment of older adults. Her clinical interests include healthy aging, including lifestyle medicine, hypertension, osteoporosis, preventive medicine, and elder abuse. She maintains some of the highest patient satisfaction scores at UC I Health. Furthermore, she has been honored as a Physician of Excellence by the Orange County Medical Association yearly since 2012, in recognition of her commitment to providing quality geriatric care to the Orange County community.

In her research and leadership, she oversees educational initiatives in our federally-funded research initiatives. Over the past seven years, she has served as the Director of Curriculum for the UC Irvine Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP, HRSA) educating community physicians in specialized care of older adults and overseeing geriatric curriculum for residents, medical, and nursing students at UC Irvine. With passion and expertise, she is on the cutting-edge of pedagogy across the nation leading UCI’s GWEP Geriatric educational ECHO series on Age Friendly Health Systems utilizing the 4-M curriculum, What Matters Most, Mentation, Medication, and Mobility.

Dr. Sehgal earned her Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at UCI Medical Center. Highly rated and beloved by her patients, Dr. Sehgal cares for older adults to promote Optimal Living and Empowered Longevity at the UCI Health SeniorHealth Center in Orange and at UCI Health in Laguna Hills.