Dr. Onate graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and trained in combined psychiatry and internal medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.  He is currently the site director for general and combined psychiatry residents at the Sacramento Primary Care Center and CARES HIV treatment clinic.  He supervises psychiatry residents in a unique outpatient internal medicine rotation addressing the coordination of medical care in uninsured and indigent patients with mental illness.  He is involved in developing the Hepatitis C treatment team of the Sacramento County Primary Care Center.  Dr. Onate supervises psychiatry residents at the CARES HIV clinic.  He is strongly interested in the collaboration and integration of psychiatric care in primary care and disease management settings.  He is a co-instructor of record for the first year medical school course, Doctoring One.

Click here for a list of Dr. Onate's recent publications.