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Rachael Truchil, MD, MPH

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Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (General Internal Medicine)
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Clincal Lead, THRIVE clinic at Penn Center for Primary Care (Thrive)
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DGIM Representative, C.O.R.E Primary Care Advisory Team
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Primary Care Clinical Site Director , University of Pennsylvania
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Primary Care Residency Clinical Site Director, University of Pennsylvania
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Director of Addiction Medicine for the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
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Department: Medicine
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Penn Center for Primary Care
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13 Education:
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29 Brown University, 2004.
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29 Brown University, 2006.
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33 University of Pennsylvania, 2009.
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24 40 Intern, University of Pennsylvania, 2009-2010.
24 69 Resident, Internal Medicine, Primary Care Track, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-2012.
24 6f Fellowship in Community Medicine Leadership for ACTION, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health 59 Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , 2021-2022.
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28 3c American Board of Internal Medicine, 2012.
28 52 Addiction Medicine, American Board of Preventive Medicine, 2024.
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Selected Publications

16c 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.

19f 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.

f0 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.

fc 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.

175 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

175 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

11a 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.

147 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.

149 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.

135 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.

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