Margaret Shang, MD, MS

Dr. Shang is board certified in internal medicine, pediatrics, and addiction medicine. She practices combined adult and pediatric primary care in Turtle Creek in addition to integrated addiction medicine and primary care through the Internal Medicine Recovery Engagement Program (IM-REP). She also attends on the inpatient Substance Treatment and Recovery Services (STARS) at UPMC Presbyterian. Her additional clinical interests include expanding service and treatment capacity for adolescents and young adults who use substances.

As core faculty for the Med-Peds Residency and Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Dr. Shang is involved in resident and fellow education and precepting. She is also the director of the Adolescent and Young Adult Addiction Medicine Fellowship, funded through HRSA. She is the rotation director for the addiction medicine elective for residents and medical students and runs the Wilson Scholars in Addiction Medicine Research Award, an 8-week mentored research experience for medical students that includes a structured didactic curriculum on addiction medicine and basic research topics. Dr. Shang also teaches at the medical student level as a Clinical Skills Preceptor.

Dr. Shang's research interests include curricular evaluation, quality improvement, and program development centered on expanding access to substance use disorder treatment, increasing the addiction workforce capacity, and decreasing healthcare-associated stigma. She is also part of the Harm Reduction Research Collaborative, which focuses on increasing access to harm reduction, including integrating these services in clinical settings.