Dr. Joseph S. Gonnella, MD

Expert Publications

• Clinical outcomes management and disease staging.
• Improved practice profiles called key to better care.
• Variation in hospital use and avoidable patient morbidity.
• Impact of a DRG-based hospital financing system on quality and outcomes of care in Italy.
• Evaluation of ambulatory care.
• Tired blood: clinical basis of audit criteria for iron deficiency anemia.
• Tired blood: clinical basis of audit criteria for iron deficiency anemia.
• 1,4-Dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers inhibit plasma and LDL oxidation and formation of oxidation-specific epitopes in the arterial wall and prolong survival in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats.
• The changing health care system. A research agenda for medical education.
• A comparison of the personality profiles of internal medicine residents, physician role models, and the general population.
• Current concepts of antibiotic therapy.
• Validity of faculty ratings of students' clinical competence in core clerkships in relation to scores on licensing examinations and Supervisors' ratings in residency.
• Minimum instructional and program-specific administrative costs of educating residents in internal medicine.
• Empathy in medical education and patient care.
• Documenting and comparing medical students' clinical experiences.

Media Releases

Get to know Internist Dr. Joseph S. Gonnella, who serves patients in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Gonnella is a board-certified internist who earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1959. He is the Director of the Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care at Sidney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Center supports the SKMC faculty and administration in evaluating the knowledge, skills, and professionalism of students throughout the Doctor of Medicine curriculum. Dr. Gonnella is responsible for the development and management of the administrative affairs and academic programs of education, research, and patient care at SKMC. Prior to his current endeavours, Dr. Gonnella served as Distinguished Professor of Medicine (Dean Emeritus) at SKMC. 

In the areas of medical education and quality assessment, Dr. Gonnella has served on the board of the National Board of Medical Examiners. He was Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Medical Education, Chairman of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, as well as Chairman of the Advisory Panel for the Civilian Peer Review of Military Medical Care Program of the Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities. Furthermore, he has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China.

As for his many achievements, Dr. Gonnella has been awarded the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity in 1978, the Grande Uffi­ciale by the President of Italy in 1995, the Dongbaeg Medal by the President of Korea, the Presidential Medal by Dartmouth College, the Presidential Citation by Thomas Jefferson University, and the Abraham Flexner Award from the Association of Ameri­can Medical Colleges. He has also received an honorary professorship from Tianjin Medical College in Tianjin, China, and a Distinguished Fellowship from the International Medical University in Malaysia. 

His research interests have focused on the relationships between knowledge, capabilities, and actual clinical performance. The results have led to instruments which have been used to evaluate educational programs, measure severity of illness (Disease Staging), and assess the quality of care and costs.

Internal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine, like Dr. Gonnella, are called internists.

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