Joseph Metmowlee Garland, MD

Joseph Garland, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and completed residency training in Internal Medicine and fellowship training in Infectious Diseases, both at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently on staff at the Jonathan Lax Center where he provides outpatient HIV specialty care, and also serves as the Co-Director of the Global Health Track of the Internal Medicine Residency program at the University of Pennsylvania, where he works with resident physicians interested in global health. He has a strong interest particularly in health care of immigrants and refugees. In 2010, he co-founded a refugee clinic at the Penn Center for Primary Care, which he continues to coordinate, and where he supervises Internal Medicine resident physicians specializing in Primary Care and Global Health seeing and caring for refugee patients. Dr Garland has worked for four years as a clinician and on the administrative board of Puentes de Salud, and now serves as the Director of Medical Education for the organization.