About Oyere Onuma, MD
Onuma earned her MD at the Yale School of Medicine. She completed her residency and fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by an M.Sc. from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in 2014. She served as a Medical officer in charge of Cardiovascular Disease management at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and returned to Yale in 2019 as an assistant professor and associate director of the Yale Preventive Cardiovascular Health Program and an affiliated faculty member at the Yale Institute for Global Health.She joined the faculty at MGH and Harvard Medical School in 2023 and is the founding director of the MGH Global Cardiovascular Health Program.
A prolific researcher, she co-authored the American College of Cardiology expert consensus decision pathway earlier this year on the clinical evaluation and management of patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Dr. Onuma is the author of multiple publications on global health and cardiovascular disease prevention in Stroke, Lancet, Circulation, and the New England Journal of Medicine, among others.
Clinical Interests:
- Cardiovascular Prevention
- Global health
- Healthcare Disparities Hypertension
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Mass General Heart Center
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 866-644-8910
Medical Education
- MD, Yale University School of Medicine
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
She is very knowledgeable, clear in her explanations, and is interested in you as a whole person. She has a great sense of humor. I felt like she was as happy as I was that I was doing well!
Excellent
Dr. Oyere K. Onuma was patient and interested in understanding my past medical history and my goals. She had reviewed my previous tests before my first appointment and after our two-way chat, offered possible protocols to help me attain better health. She listens carefully before making a suggestion.
I thought my provider was very polite, courteous, listened to my concerns, and was able to answer all my questions. I thought that her care was excellent.
It was my first visit with this provider
Very thorough and comprehensive visit to discuss my overall cardiovascular health and what I need to do to lower my risk of cardiovascular disease. Very open discussion with the care provider listening to all my concerns and questions and providing clear and concise answers to everything.
Dr. Onuma listened carefully to my concerns and was very thorough in her evaluation. I really appreciated the time she spent with me.
Good Experience
Dr. Onuma is very easy to talk with. She clearly and politely explains test results and the treatments she considers for me. It's a very open and friendly exchange and I feel like she values my concerns. For all of her experience and knowledge, she is very humble and approachable. I highly recommend her.
This is [redacted] wife and I was with him for the appointment. This physician was really outstanding. She listened to my husband and really took his situation into account, asking thorough questions to make sure she understood his history. She's also very warm and friendly and made very good eye contact with him.