Bridget R Durkin (she/her) is a physician, medical ethicist, and theater artist from Philadelphia. Dr. Durkin is the Director of the Addiction Medicine Consult Service at the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania.

She trained as an Addiction Medicine fellow at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, where she cared for patients with a range of substance use disorders and complex medical co-morbidities. She has finished her Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and is also a member of the multidisciplinary hospital Ethics Committee.

Bridget trained in Internal Medicine and Primary Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where she also attended medical school and obtained a master’s degree in Bioethics. Her interests include interdisciplinary medical education on clinical ethics, substance use disorders, and palliative care. She is passionate about supporting vulnerable patients, especially those living with substance use disorder and comorbid serious illness.