Matthew O’Brien, MD, MSc

Matthew O’Brien, MD, cofounded Puentes de Salud and serves as the clinic’s Medical Director. He is a general internist who completed medical school at Brown University in 2004, residency in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program in 2010. Dr. O’Brien is an assistant professor of medicine and public health at Temple University. His research focuses on community-based models for reducing health disparities in Latinos, specifically community health workers, or promotoras. Much of his research is conducted at Puentes de Salud and in the South Philadelphia Latino community, focusing on obesity and nutrition, diabetes prevention, cancer prevention, and health literacy in Latinos.