Jeanmarie Perrone is a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, the Director of the Division of Medical Toxicology and the founding Director of the Penn Center for Addiction Medicine and Policy. Dr. Perrone has led multiple initiatives in opioid stewardship and leads a program for the ED treatment of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). Dr. Perrone has served on many national task forces and federal advisory committees with the CDC and FDA addressing judicious opioid use and has advocated at the state and national level for expanding treatment opportunities for OUD. Dr. Perrone has been featured in prominent media including the New York Times, National Public Radio, Freakonomics and USA Today and has published in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA . She has won numerous awards for education and mentorship and is boarded in emergency medicine, medical toxicology and addiction medicine.
Bio Type: Faculty
Sam Huo, MD, MPH, MS
Sam Huo, MD, MPH, MS is an emergency and addiction medicine physician and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at Temple University Hospital and a fellowship in addiction medicine at Cooper University Hospital. She is passionate about harnessing the potential for the ED and hospital settings to be a point of entry to other settings of care, particularly for those who struggle with substance use disorders. Her approach to medicine is grounded in the philosophy of harm reduction and the belief that people who use drugs deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. She currently practices emergency medicine and addiction medicine at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania – Cedar Avenue. She serves as the medical director of the Addiction Consult Team at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. In her free time she enjoys rock climbing, playing tennis, and snuggling with her cats.
Margaret Lowenstein, MD, MPhil, MSHP
Maggie Lowenstein, MD, MPhil, MSHP is a general internist, addiction medicine physician, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Lowenstein’s research focuses on novel strategies for implementing evidence-based treatment and harm reduction interventions for opioid and other substance use disorders. She is interested in the delivery of substance use care in general medical settings as well as developing and studying low-barrier treatment models for substance use disorder. Dr. Lowenstein also co-chairs the Opioid Use Disorder Workgroup of the Penn Medicine Opioid Task Force and collaborates with partners in Philadelphia to disseminate of best practices for opioid use disorder care. She currently practices addiction medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and on Prevention Point Philadelphia’s mobile treatment unit
Nicole O’Donnell
Nicole is a Certified Recovery Specialist, recognized by the Philadelphia Inquirer for excellence in patient care for her work at Penn Medicine’s Center for Addiction Medicine and Policy, which includes supporting patients at Penn Presbyterian, Pennsylvania Hospital, and the Hospital of the University of Penn. Ms. O’Donnell oversees the CareConnect Warmline, a low barrier and virtual buprenorphine bridge clinic, serving the Philadelphia area and surrounding counties connecting community members to evidence-based treatment.
Judy Chertok, MD
Dr. Judy Chertok is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health and the Director of Addiction Medicine and the Fellowship in Addiction Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Pennsylvania. Her clinical work is in primary care based opioid treatment, community-based low barrier opioid treatment, and specialty hospital-consultation addiction treatment in addition to general family medicine inpatient and outpatient. As the Director of Addiction Medicine, she initiated and oversaw the growth of the Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) program within Penn Family Care, from a single patient to nearly 250 patients per year, including a novel perinatal program. Since 2020, she has joined a unique collaboration with Prevention Point Philadelphia to provide mobile harm reduction resources, MOUD and COVID vaccines in a low barrier, community setting. Her educational work is focused on incorporating training for addiction care throughout all four years of the Perelman School of Medicine, for residents in Family Medicine, and for Addiction Fellows.
Nia Bhadra-Heintz, MD, MS
Nia Bhadra-Heintz, MD, MS is an obstetrician and gynecologist with a background in cross-cultural psychology who completed medical school at the Boston University School of Medicine, OB/GYN residency at the University of Pennsylvania, and fellowship in addiction medicine at The Ohio State University. She is a Assistant Professor in the OB/GYN generalist division and co-director of the Perinatal Resources for Opioid Use Disorder in Penn Family Care. Her research interests include treatment of substance use disorders in peripartum women, stigma related to addiction medicine treatment, intimate partner violence, and disparities within women’s health.
Tanya Uritsky, PharmD
Tanya Uritsky, PharmD is a clinical pharmacist serving as the Opioid Stewardship Coordinator at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). She is also the Co-Chair of the Penn Medicine Opioid Stewardship Task Force. She has worked in clinical care since 2010, practicing as the Pain and Palliative Care Specialist for the hospital prior to taking the Stewardship role. She works with staff throughout the hospital providing clinical support, problem-solving, and education around stewardship in pain management, consulting on patients with complex pain and supporting clinicians in the care of comorbid substance use disorders. She has helped develop protocols and is involved in research and clinician and patient education for the health system to support standardization of care for patients with OUD across the health system and care settings.
Stephen Iannacone, MD, MAUB
Stephen Iannacone, MD, MAUB is a family medicine doctor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Pennsylvania Hospital and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and has been in practice between 6-10 years. Dr. Stephen M. Iannacone has expertise in treating diabetes, heart failure, hypertension, among other conditions.
Emily Casey, PharmD
Emily Casey, PharmD is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Pain Management and Substance Use Disorders at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her PGY-2 pharmacy residency in Pain Management and Palliative care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2023 and her PGY-1 general pharmacy residency at Penn Presbyterian Medical center in 2022. She graduated from the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University in 2021. She is passionate about treating concomitant pain in people who use drugs and reducing stigma in healthcare. She trains pharmacy residents and students to treat people who use drugs with dignity and respect. In her free time she enjoys reading, hiking, and playing with her cats.
Kit Delgado, MD, MS
Mucio Kit Delgado, MD, MS, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology with tenure at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, the world’s first behavioral design team embedded within a health system. He is also an attending physician in the emergency department at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, an associate director at the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, and co-chair of the Penn Medicine’s Opioid Task Force.
Dr. Delgado’s research blends behavioral and data science with insights gleaned from practicing emergency medicine in an urban trauma center to guide patients and clinicians toward decisions that enhance personal safety and improve the quality of acute care. He is passionate about leading multidisciplinary teams to address pressing public health problems. His portfolio includes work to curb the opioid overdose crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, reduce trauma and firearm injuries, and decrease distracted and alcohol-impaired driving.
