Sonoma Valley Hospital Welcomes Chief Medical Officer Dr. Patrick I. Okolo III
October 13, 2025Leer en español
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October 8, 2025 – Sonoma, CA — Sonoma Valley Hospital is excited to welcome Chief Medical Officer Patrick I. Okolo III, MD, MPH, FASGE to our team. Dr. Patrick Okolo started on October 6th.
Dr. Okolo is a physician leader, academic gastroenterologist, and health system executive with a career defined by clinical excellence, education, and organizational transformation. “I’m eager to get started, providing overall physician leadership, advance clinical quality, and strengthen institutional ties — including a strategic role in deepening our hospital’s collaboration with UCSF — while continuing to practice gastroenterology,” says Dr. Okolo.
Dr. Okolo graduated with distinction from the College of Medicine at the University of Nigeria, earning top academic prizes as the most outstanding graduate. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Indiana University, where he was awarded the Walter Daly Prize as the most outstanding trainee. He subsequently trained in gastroenterology and advanced endoscopy, earning a Master of Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Okolo followed this with advanced business training at the Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins.
He has held leadership positions at several distinguished institutions. At Johns Hopkins Hospital, he served as Chief of Endoscopy, where he introduced innovations in patient care. He later advanced to Rochester Regional Health in New York. Most recently, he was Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke, Virginia, guiding academic growth, program development, and access optimization.
His expertise has been honored globally, with distinctions from gastroenterology societies in India, Brazil, Paraguay, Nigeria, and Italy, and nationally in the United States through annual recognition by Castle Connolly and other leading physician-recognition organizations for more than two decades.
Dr. Okolo’s professional interests include healthcare leadership, physician engagement, patient access optimization, and redesign of systems to improve efficiency and equity of care. Within gastroenterology, he remains active in therapeutic endoscopy, quality improvement, and education.
A Fellow of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (FASGE), Dr. Okolo’s enduring mission is to align clinical excellence with organizational performance — cultivating cultures of collegiality, advancing equity, and improving patient-centered outcomes.
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