Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Haddon Township, NJ
Dr. Wilson's research interests include reducing substance use-related health disparities and building health equity for people who use drugs. Her work includes integrating harm reduction into primary care settings, developing low threshold models of care, and improving engagement and retention of adolescents and young adults in OUD treatment. Her line of research inquiry has been informed by her clinical experiences as an attending on the inpatient addiction medicine consultation service in Pittsburgh, as a Medical Director of a low-threshold quasi-mobile buprenorphine clinic in West Baltimore, as a medical expert for a local harm reduction advocacy organization, and through leading community trainings (e.g. in churches, on street, on needle and syringe van) on overdose prevention). Her research leverages health service research methods, community-engaged approaches, and implementation science. Dr. Wilson’s current grants examine the hospital and provider factors that drive disparities in receipt of evidence-based substance use disorder treatment and harm reduction services. Her work focuses on understanding the ways in which overlapping systems of disadvantage (driven by racism, sexism, and stigma related to addiction) lead to poor outcomes, and identifies novel ways to improve equitable service delivery across the clinical spectrum.
Monday, April 10, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM