Anthony Bellarosa, MD (he/him)

Associate Professor of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine · MMI rater, MD Admissions · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

About

I'm a family physician who sees patients two and a half days a week in a North Philadelphia practice, where most visits involve diabetes, blood pressure and a lot of paperwork about insurance. I've been an MMI station rater for the MD program since 2019. Most cycles I rate the ethics and teamwork stations, and I work alongside the medical students who lead our small-group interviews. In eight minutes I'm listening for how you reason, not for the right answer. I also teach first-year students how to take a social history without making it sound like a checklist.

Experience

Drexel University College of Medicine - Associate Professor, Family, Community and Preventive Medicine, 2018 - present - Outpatient attending; precepts third-year family medicine clerkship students. - MMI rater and admissions committee member since 2019; helped revise the teamwork station scenarios in 2024. - Co-leads a faculty working group on AI documentation tools in teaching clinics (2025 - present).

Schuylkill River Family Health Partners (Pottstown, PA) - Family Physician, 2010 - 2018 - Ran a group diabetes visit program for patients on dialysis waitlists and their families.

St. Agatha Family Medicine Residency (Wilmington, DE) - Resident, then Chief Resident, 2007 - 2010

Education

MD, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine, 2007
BA, Philosophy, Villanova University, 2002. Worked two years as a paramedic in Delaware County before medical school.

Volunteering

Kensington Neighborhood Health Night - volunteer physician, monthly blood pressure and foot-check clinic, 2012 - present
Youth soccer coach, under-12, South Philadelphia

Interests

Home espresso that is rarely good; Phillies season tickets shared with three colleagues; reading Italian crime novels, badly, in Italian.