Wei-Teng Yang, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine. He is also currently the Director of Infectious Diseases – Addiction Medicine Integration in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Perelman School of Medicine. He is interested in the science-humanity interplay in infectious diseases and addiction, and in multidisciplinary care, patient advocacy, and peer learning. He consolidated his interest in infectious diseases with TB and HIV research. Since his fellowship training in infectious diseases and addiction medicine, his work integrates the two specialties to address substance-use-related infectious disease syndemics. He focuses on harm reduction and pragmatic program implementation and quality improvement.
Dr. Yang finished medical school in Taiwan and worked with the Taiwanese CDC TB team before pursuing a MPH from Johns Hopkins University. He finished internal medicine residency in Yale New Haven Health System.