John Onate, MD

Dr. Onate practices both Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at the Sacramento County Health Center, where he currently is the director of Integrated Behavioral Health. He is co-lead in developing interventional psychiatry through the new Advanced Psychiatric Therapeutics Clinic. He is the lead Electroconvulsive Therapy Specialist in the department and trains psychiatric residents in the procedure. He also is a core faculty member of the nationally recognized UC Irvine Train New Trainers Program for primary care providers. As a faculty member at the University of California Davis School of Medicine he supervises Psychiatry and Combined Internal Medicine-Psychiatry residents along with MD and PA students; addressing the coordination of medical care in uninsured and indigent patients with mental illness and substance disorders.

He is a recipient of the American Psychiatric Association’s Nancy C.A.Roeske, M.D., Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Education. He has published several articles and book chapters in the field of primary care preventative health and psychiatry. He has spoken nationally at about collaboration in medical and mental health care, addiction medicine, sports psychiatry, and on exercise as a treatment for depression. Dr. Onate has appeared on the PBS medical program Second Opinion. He is strongly interested in the collaboration and integration of psychiatric care and substance abuse treatment in primary care, HIV medicine and Hepatitis C. Additionally he is interested education on interventional psychiatry and using exercise in the treatment of mental illness. He is one of the co-faculty advisors for the UCDSOM Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society.