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’s research focuses on expanding and adapting evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder in the era of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs. He works clinically as a hospital-based addiction consult physician and as an outpatient primary care and addiction treatment physician. Dr. Thakrar earned his MD and MS in Health Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine.