Navid Roder, MD, AAHIVM is an associate professor of Family Medicine and Community Health and founder and Co-Director of the PROUD (Perinatal Resources for Opioid Use Disorder) program. He is FMOB faculty, providing inpatient and outpatient prenatal and post-partum care. He also co-directs the Penn Family Care HIV program. He provides inpatient adult medicine care and serves as a consult physician on the Addiction Consult Service. Finally, he provides prenatal care at a number of FQHC’s affiliated with Penn Family Care. He teaches all levels of medical learners including medical students, Family Medicine and OB residents, maternal fetal medicine fellows, Addiction Psychiatry Fellows, and Addiction Medicine Fellows. His career focus is in supporting families affected by addiction and comorbid mental health conditions as well as infectious diseases.
Bio Type: Faculty
Pam Garcia, MD, AAHIVS
Kristine Pamela M. Garcia, MD, AAHIVS 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. She received her medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine/Hahnemann University and has been in practice between 11-20 years. Dr. Kristine Pamela M. Garcia has expertise in treating diabetes, arthritis, hypertension, among other conditions
Arden Harris, MD, MSc
Rebecca Arden Harris (“Arden”), MD, MSc, is an Assistant Professor, primary care and addiction medicine physician, and researcher in the Penn Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Dr. Harris’s research aims to reduce drug use harms and improve patient outcomes through two complementary lines of inquiry. She analyzes national drug use, morbidity, and mortality trends in relation to drug policies and public health. Additionally, she studies innovative addiction treatment models to enhance care quality and accessibility, especially for vulnerable populations. By integrating population-level analysis with practical treatment solutions, her work strives to bridge the gap between macro-policy and micro-implementation. Dr. Harris is committed to translating research insights into actionable strategies for care teams, policymakers, and public health officials, with the goal of creating a more effective and compassionate system for preventing and treating drug use disorders.
Sean Schlosser, MD
Sean Schlosser, MD is an emergency and addiction medicine physician and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at Temple University Hospital and a fellowship in addiction medicine at Cooper University Hospital.
He is passionate about fighting for social justice in the emergency department with an emphasis on helping people with substance use disorders.
He currently practices emergency medicine and addiction medicine at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania – Cedar Avenue.
Ashish Thakrar, MD, MSHP
Ashish Thakrar, MD, MSHP is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. He is an internist and an addiction medicine specialist. Dr. Thakrar works clinically as a hospital-based addiction consult physician and as an outpatient primary care and addiction treatment physician. His research focuses on expanding and adapting evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder for the era of fentanyl, xylazine, and other synthetic drugs. He earned his MD and MS in Health Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and he completed internal medicine residency and addiction fellowship training at Johns Hopkins.
Rachael Truchil, MD, MPH
Rachael Truchil is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine and supervises the district health centers, refugee clinic and the THRIVE Addiction Medicine Clinics. She is a former PCPC graduate and proud of it! She returned to Penn in 2016 and initially split her to time working in the Philadelphia District Health Centers FQHC system and Penn, but has since transitioned full time to Penn to expand her reach in addiction medicine. She also course directs the medical student outpatient sub-internship and the Longitudinal Patient Experience Course. Outside of work, she likes to spend time outdoors with her husband, two kiddos, and dog. She loves cooking, knitting, and audiobooks.
Deanna Wilson, MD, MPH
J. Deanna Wilson, MD, MPH is a Presidential Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Wilson’s research focuses on building health equity and reducing health disparities for marginalized and racially minoritized populations who use substances, particularly young people who use substances. Her research examines the ways in which intersecting systems of disadvantage, including structural racism, contributes to poor outcomes for people who inject drugs. She leverages data-driven approaches to identify and understand disparities within the health system, and through research and community partnership focuses on transforming health systems to be responsive to the needs of the communities they serve.
Dr. Wilson uses health services research methods, implementation science, and community-engaged methods to examine how best to integrate harm reduction into primary care settings, develop low threshold models of care to improve engagement and retention of marginalized racially and ethnically minoritized populations, and improve engagement and retention of adolescents and young adults in opioid use disorder treatment. She has received several awards recognizing her as a researcher, advocate, and clinician, including the American Academy of Pediatrics Emerging Leader Award, the NIH HEAL Trailblazer Award, and the HEAL Director’s Award for Community Partnership.
Julia Carney, MD
Julia Carney, MD completed her Post-Bacc at Bryn Mawr College having finished her BA in Political Science at Yale University. Prior to medical school she worked in Rwanda in the field of food insecurity and child malnutrition. During medical school she was involved with Prevention Point, Penn Refugee Clinic, Philadelphia Human Rights Clinic, and Students Allied against Racism in Medicine, and she was recognized for her social commitment through her election into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She was selected for a FOCUS Medical Student Fellowship in Women’s Health where she worked on improving postpartum care. She enjoys growing vegetables and cooking and hosting dinners for friends.
Wei-Teng Yang, MD, MPH
Wei-Teng Yang, MD practices in infectious diseases and addiction medicine in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Presbyterian Hospital. His clinical and academic interests are in the integration of infectious diseases and addiction care, and implementation of care models. He has extensive experiences working with marginalized populations and views addiction as the root cause of many infectious diseases. In his role of the Director of Infectious Diseases – Addiction Medicine Integration in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Dr. Yang sees inpatient consultations with the infectious diseases and addiction medicine teams and maintains an outpatient practice where he sees patients with concurrent infections and addiction. He is also involved in multidisciplinary work in infective endocarditis and xylazine associated wounds within the Penn health system. Outside of medicine, Dr. Yang enjoys traveling, exploring new destinations, restaurants, and new hobbies with his family.
Bridget R Durkin, MD, MBE
Bridget R Durkin (she/her) is a physician, medical ethicist, and theater artist from Philadelphia. 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 is currently a Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellow 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.
