Yomaris Peña, M.D. Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Yomaris Peña is a young and successful doctor who has earned the love and respect of her community and everyone who has met her during her career as a medical doctor and assistant professor at two prestigious universities in the Dominican Republic and the United States. She considers herself a citizen of the universe, even though her roots of origin are in the Dominican Republic.
Being born in Santiago, a city in the Dominican Republic, and raised for half of her life in Puerto Rico enabled her to learn about different cultures and adapt medicine to each person as she recognized that diversity and different ideologies might interfere with the health and overall wellness plan for each one of us. She strives to understand and connect with every person she comes in contact with to meet their best needs. Keeping patients healthy (physically and emotionally) is her goal.
Dr. Peña performed part of her internship as a medical student at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, NY, and Creighton University Medical Center, Nebraska, for Internal Medicine and Anesthesiology, respectively. She also completed her internship at community hospitals in the Dominican Republic, such as Arturo Grullon- Pediatrics Center and Hospital Jose Maria Cabral y Baez (Ob/GYN and Surgery). She graduated from medical school at 23 and was a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Pontificia Universidad Catholic Madre y Maestra Santiago in Dominican Rep. (PUCMM).
Later, Dr. Peña became an Assistant Professor in the Morphology Department-PUCMM from 2001 until 2004, facilitating embryology, anatomy, and histology classes. She also completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, now Rutgers University Medical Center, from 2006- 2009. There, she was exposed to underserved communities such as Newark and East Orange and the privileged patient population of Hackensack, NJ.
Dr. Peña has since worked in the private practice sector in underserved communities of NYC, providing care to low-income patients. In February 2022, she was appointed SOMOS Community Care’s Chief Medical Officer. Her expertise includes internal medicine, care management, and emergency medical services.
