- Chronic disease management
- Preventive health
- Wellness examination
Oana Tomescu, MD, PhD
Internal Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Internal Medicine - Edward S. Cooper Internal Medicine
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Associate Program Director, Med/Peds Residency Program
- Core Faculty, Internal Medicine Residency Program
- Director, PennIM Longitudinal Resilience and Reflection Curriculum
- Director, Well-being Interventions for Trainees in the Department of Medicine
- Professor of Clinical Medicine (General Internal Medicine)
My education and training
- Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Spoken languages
English
English
Reviews
267 reviews
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Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Internal Medicine, Adolescent Medicine
- Internal Medicine, 2007
- American College of Physicians (ACP), National
- Collaborative for Healing and Renewal in Medicine (CHARM), National
- Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM), National
- Recognized annually in Philadelphia Magazine's Top Docs issue from 2018 through 2025
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Orr, Andrew R. MD, MSEd; Hussain, Farah MD; Silver, Michelle MD; Tomescu, Oana MD, PhD; Balmer, Dorene F. PhD Patients, Peers, and Personal Identity: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study Exploring the Transformative Potential of the Arts and Humanities in Intern Training , Academic Medicine, 10.1097: 2024
Andrew Orr, Farah Hussain, Oana Tomescu, Horace DeLisser, Karen M Grundy, Suzannah Niepold, Adam Rizzo, Sarah Shaw, Dorene Balmer. Extending Arts-Based Interventions in Graduate Medical Education through the Positive Humanities: the Re-FRAME Workshop. , J Gen Intern Med : 2023
Hussain Farah, Yaden Mary E.; Tomescu Oana Individually Focused Well-Being Interventions (chapter) , Caring for Caregivers to Be: A Comprehensive Approach to Developing Well-Being Programs for the Health Care Learner: 2023
Tamminga M.A. and Tomescu O. Medical student knowledge and concern regarding mental health disclosure requirements in medical licensing. , General Hospital Psychiatry , 72: 2021,31-35
Yaden M.E., Yaden D.B., Tomescu O. High Mindfulness is Protective Against Burnout During Internal Medicine Internship (poster) , Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Fall Conference (virtual): 2020
Handley N.R., Tomescu O., Lopez A.M. Wellbeing During a Time of Crisis and Beyond: Supporting a Culture of Mindfulness in Oncology Practices (editorial) , JCO Oncology Practice: 2020
Bird A., Tomescu O., Oyola S., Houpy J., Anderson I., & Pincavage A. A Curriculum to Teach Resilience Skills to Medical Students During Clinical Training , MedEdPortal: Journal of Teaching and Learning Resources , 16: 2020,10975
Jamil A., Ginzberg S., Duckworth E., Tomescu O. The Impact of Changing to a Pass/Fail Curriculum on Burnout at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (poster) , Northeastern Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA) Conference; Philadelphia, PA: 2019
Ganta N., Heath J.K., Tomescu O. Prevalence and Contributors to Subspecialty Trainee Burnout and Impact of Innovative Wellness Consultative Service (poster) , Northeastern Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA) Conference; Philadelphia, PA: 2019
Bird A.N., Tomescu O., Pincavage A. A Novel Medical Student-Driven Multicenter Resilience Curriculum (poster) , Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, Annual Meeting; Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine, Annual Meeting; San Antonio, TX: 2019