Rachael Truchil, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (General Internal Medicine)
Medical Director, Penn Refugee Clinic, University of Pennsylvania
Clincal Lead, THRIVE clinic at Penn Center for Primary Care (Thrive)
DGIM Representative, C.O.R.E Primary Care Advisory Team
Primary Care Clinical Site Director , University of Pennsylvania
Primary Care Residency Clinical Site Director, University of Pennsylvania
Director of Addiction Medicine for the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medicine
Contact information
Penn Center for Primary Care
51 N. 39th St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
51 N. 39th St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-662-9990
Education:
BA
Brown University, 2004.
MPH
Brown University, 2006.
MD
University of Pennsylvania, 2009.
Permanent linkBA
Brown University, 2004.
MPH
Brown University, 2006.
MD
University of Pennsylvania, 2009.
Selected Publications
Lowenstein M, Popova E, Jalloh A, Mazzella S, Botcheos D, Bertocchi J, Westfahl S, Garcia K, Truchil R, Chertok J: The Mobile Overdose Response Program: A mobile, low-threshold opioid use disorder treatment model in Philadelphia. J Subst Use Addict Treat. (eds.). 164: 209429, Sep 2024.Lowenstein M, Abrams M, Crowe M, Shimamoto K, Mazzella S, Botcheos D, Bertocchi J, Westfahl S, Chertok J, Garcia K, Truchil R, Holliday-Davis M, Aronowitz S: “Come try it out. Get your foot in the door:” Exploring patient perspectives on low-barrier treatment for opioid use disorder Drug and Alcohol Dependence 248: 109915, Jul 1 2023.
Ganetzky D, Purcell A, Truchil R, Tjaden A, Cronholm P: Patient-Centered Hypertension Management: Two Team-Based Models. Family Practice Management 30(4): 12-16, 2023.
Truchil R, Rolston DD.: All these medications: What a pain in the neck! Society of General Internal Medicine, Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting April 2013 Notes: Poster presentation.
Peaslee MA, Truchil R, Gorman J, Sun H, Mikhail P, Rolston DD.: Are proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and histamine-2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs) prescribed appropriately in an outpatient setting? Society of General Internal Medicine, Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting April 2013 Notes: Poster Presentation
Peaslee MA, Truchil R, Gorman J, Sun H, Mikhail P, Rolston DD.: Are proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and histamine-2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs) prescribed appropriately in an outpatient setting? Society of General Internal Medicine, Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting April 2013 Notes: Poster Presentation
Truchil R, Garland J, Rusk M.: A year in review: Implementation of a Refugee Clinic at Penn Center for Primary Care. Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting October 2012 Notes: Poster Presentation.
Gruneir A, Mor V, Weitzen S, Truchil R, Teno J, Roy J.: Where people die: a multilevel approach to understanding influences on site of death in America. Medical care research and review : MCRR 64(4): 351-78, Aug 2007 Notes: DOI: 10.1177/1077558707301810.
Rakowski W, Truchil R, Schneider K, Meersman S, Clark MA.: Correlates of mammography in a national analysis compared to results in quintile- and regionally-defined samples. Preventive medicine 42(5): 386-9, May 2006 Notes: DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.01.016.
Rakowski W, Clark MA, Truchil R, Schneider K, Meersman S.: Smoking status and mammography among women aged 50-75 in the 2002 behavioral risk factor surveillance system. Women & health 41(4): 1-21, 2005 Notes: DOI: 10.1300/J013v41n04_01.