Wei-Teng Yang, MD, MPH

Wei-Teng Yang, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine. He is currently the Director of Infectious Diseases – Addiction Medicine Integration in the Division of Infectious Diseases. His professional interest is in the science-humanity interplay in infectious diseases and addiction. Since his fellowship training in infectious diseases and addiction medicine, he has been working to integrate the two specialties to address substance-use-related infectious disease syndemics. He focuses on harm reduction, patient advocacy and multidisciplinary care.

Dr. Yang finished medical school in Taiwan and worked with the Taiwanese CDC TB team before pursuing a MPH from Johns Hopkins University, where he consolidated his interests in infectious diseases and health disparity. He finished internal medicine residency in the Yale New Haven Health System, infectious diseases fellowship in University of Washington, and addiction medicine fellowship in Oregon Health & Science University.