Libby Wetterer, MD

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Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Community Health
Department: Family Medicine and Community Health

Contact information
3737 Market Street
9th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 2156628777
Education:
BA (Psychology, Arts & Letters Pre-Health)
University of Notre Dame, 2015.
MD (Population Health Track)
Georgetown University School of Medicine, 2020.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

I am a family physician, educator, and sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) advocate with expertise in full-spectrum family medicine. My academic work centers on expanding access to evidence-based, patient-centered reproductive healthcare through curriculum development, clinical leadership, and mentorship of trainees. I bring specialized experience in self-managed abortion, early pregnancy care, and inpatient and outpatient obstetrics, informed by clinical practice in academic family medicine and national advocacy roles. Across my teaching, clinical work, and scholarship, I focus on integrating Reproductive Justice principles into medical education and advancing systems that support access to high quality care for all patients.

Selected Publications

Libby Wetterer, MD , Grace Halsey: Self-Managed Abortion in Post-Dobbs America: Family Physician Libby Wetterer, MD, Looks Back and Ahead. Patient Care September 2025.

Ashley Adams with quotes from Libby Wetterer MD: From clinics to crisis: Pennsylvania women will feel the pain of Medicaid cuts. Keystone Newsroom May 2025.

Libby Wetterer, MD∙ Hannah Rosenfield, MD ∙ Hilary Gortler, MD, MSc ∙ Martha Simmons, MD: Abortion in Primary Care. Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice. Elsevier, April 2025.

Bah, FatoumataWallace, RobinFoster, Angel M.Wetterer, LibbyGrant, MelissaSietstra, Cari et al.: Learning from medication abortion: Repeat doses of misoprostol after mifepristone for early pregnancy loss management Contraception. Elsevier, April 2025 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2025.110934.

Shonitria Anthony with quotes from Libby Wetterer MD: When Black Moms Decide To Use Weed For Postpartum Healing HuffPost Voices February 2025.

Celine Castronuovo with quotes from Libby Wetterer MD: Abortion Ballot Fights Revive Mental Health Exception Debates. Bloomberg Law August 2024.

Selena Simmons-Duffin with quotes from Dr. Libby Wetterer: Yeast infections are miserable. And some over-the-counter treatments can backfire. NPR 2024.

Emily Nadal with quotes from Libby Wetterer MD: Researchers Say They Now Know What Causes Morning Sickness. Parents.com 2024.

Emily Nadal, with quotes from Libby Wetterer MD: The First Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill Will Be Available This Month. Parents.com 2024.

Libby Wetterer: Medicaid should pay for Abortion in Pennsylvania. Penn Live 2024.

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Last updated: 11/24/2025
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