Reducing Barriers, Improving Outcomes: Rethinking Access to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Speakers: 

Margaret Lowenstein, MD, MSHP

Assistant Professor, Medicine

Perelman School of Medicine

Research Director, Penn Center for Addiction Medicine and Policy 

Rachael Truchil, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (General Internal Medicine)

Clinical Lead, THRIVE clinic at Penn Center for Primary Care 

Director of Addiction Medicine for the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Bios:

Margaret (Maggie) Lowenstein, MD, 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 best practices for opioid use disorder care. She currently practices integrated addiction medicine and primary care at the University of Pennsylvania and attends on Penn’s inpatient addiction medicine consult service.

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 is the Director of Addiction Medicine for the Division of General Internal Medicine. She currently practices addiction medicine and primary care at the THRIVE Addiction Medicine Clinic at Penn Center for Primary Care and attends on the inpatient addiction medicine consult service at Penn Presbyterian Hospital.