Theresa Soriano, MD, MPH

Dr. Theresa Soriano is a board-certified general internist, palliative medicine physician, and Adjunct Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.   She currently serves as the Chief Health Officer of Grouper, a company pioneering the social fitness movement, encouraging healthy living by partnering with health plans and group organizations to promote meaningful social connections and shared experiences for individuals.

Nationally recognized in the field of home and community-based practice and interdisciplinary program leadership for 20 years, Dr. Soriano has always put her philosophy into practice that improving the health of people and larger communities requires addressing medical, behavioral, and social needs and incorporating these components into the design and delivery of healthcare models.  She has held provider, academic, clinical-operational, strategic, and executive roles in home-based primary and palliative care, care management, and population health in the academic setting (Mount Sinai Health System), start-ups (Cityblock, Prospero Health, Landmark Health), and large health systems (Optum). 

Dr. Soriano served on the board of directors and was past president of the American Academy of Home Care Medicine (AAHCM).  Her work has also received honors, including AAHCM’s Physician of the Year, the Hastings Center-Cunniff Dixon Physician Award for Excellence in Palliative Medicine, the American Hospital Association Circle of Life Citation of Honor for Palliative Care (Prospero Health), and the inaugural Society of General Internal Medicine’s Practice Innovation Award (Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program). 

A first-generation Filipino-American and the first physician in her family, Dr. Soriano attended Cornell University as a Cornell National Scholar and received her MD and MPH from The Mount Sinai School of Medicine.  She completed her residency training at the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital, one of the nation’s largest public hospitals.  She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two sons, spending free time outdoors and enjoying NYC’s many activities, as well as in volunteer leadership roles with local organizations that promote social and intergenerational connections.ison with a Bachelor of Science in Genetics and East Asian Studies.