Sonia Pothraj, MD

Sonia is a board certified general pediatrician and pediatric urgent care physician. She is a passionate tutor and mentor. She has tutored doctors for the General Pediatrics Board Certifying Exam starting in January 2023. 

She received the merit-based Rice Trustee Distinguished Scholarship to attend Rice University where she graduated in three years with numerous grants and the Spanish and Portuguese Cervantes Award for outstanding seniors. Sonia was an SAT tutor and college and medical school admissions counselor for a private company for four years, where she enjoyed guiding students. Over 95% of her students received admission to their top choice schools. Sonia received her MD from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School where she graduated with numerous clinical honors distinctions as well as nominations for Gold Humanism Honor Society and house officer. 

Sonia graduated pediatrics residency from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She received nominations for resident of the month as a senior resident by the Divisions of Hospitalist Medicine, the Chief of the Division of Emergency Medicine, the Medical Student Clerkship Director, and the class of interns she supervised for her professionalism, leadership skills, and teaching. She also received the David H. Carver Teaching Award upon her residency graduation. In her current role as a general pediatrician, she precepts medical students from Touro College of Middletown and New York Medical College and has a teaching role at New York Medical College. As a pediatric urgent care physician, she also sees patients in a fast-paced setting, and stabilizes acutely ill children. Finally, she volunteers with Breakthrough Collaborative, a program for gifted, underserved students where she mentors pre-med students and keeps in touch with old students she taught years ago as well.