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.
Bio Type: Infectious Disease, OBGYN, Addiction Psychiatrist
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.
Samantha Zwiebel, MD, MA
Samantha Zwiebel, MD, MA is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine. She obtained her MD and MA in bioethics from Case Western Reserve University, and completed her residency in psychiatry at the University of Kentucky and fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry at the Cleveland Clinic. She is passionate about treating hosptialized patients with substance use disorders, especially patients with infective endocarditis and opioid use disorder.
