Dr. Patrick Perri received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and M.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh with a special Concentration in Health Care to Underserved Populations, followed by residency training in Internal Medicine-Primary Care at Massachusetts General Hospital. After completing his residency, Dr. Perri served as Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Assistant in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital while working as a clinician on the Street Team of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. He currently serves as Medical Director of the CIH at Allegheny Health Network and is active as a primary care clinician educator on the faculty of the AHN Internal Medicine Residency Program. Within the CIH, he has leadership roles with the Program for Homeless and Urban Poverty Medicine, Inclusion Health Inpatient Consult Service, Medical Respite Program, and Inclusion Health Residency Training Track. In addition to his clinical and teaching activities, Dr. Perri directs the Street Medicine Institute—an international non-profit organization dedicated to improving access to health care services for people living on the streets throughout the world—and also chairs the annual International Street Medicine Symposium. During his twenty-plus years of work with homeless and other socially excluded populations, Dr. Perri has developed and implemented a number of internationally-recognized innovations in homeless health care delivery and medical education, including a homeless inpatient consultation service model and a comprehensive curriculum in homeless health care.
Dr. Venkat is an internist. Originally from Las Vegas, Nevada, she completed her undergraduate and medical school degrees at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. She has been inducted into the Golden Humanism Honor Society. She went on to complete her internal medicine training at the Allegheny General Hospital followed by her chief residency. Her current focus is in developing programs for incarcerated populations, substance use disorders, and social determinants of health. Her areas of interest include incarceration, substance use disorders, food insecurity, medical education and quality improvement. She believes in empowering physicians and patients through education and increasing access to vital resources.
Dr. Caitlin Couper is a board certified internist. Originally from Columbus, Ohio she
completed her Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan. After a year
of service teaching secondary school through WorldTeach in Tanzania, East
Africa, she attended medical school at the University of Toledo College of Medicine. While in Toledo, Dr. Couper helped organize, fundraise, and
participate in medical mission trips to Honduras and Guatemala. She then
completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where she focused on global health and care for underserved populations. During residency she spent time working at a government hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi and working in Navajo nation with Indian Health Services. Dr. Couper now works in the Center for Recovery Medicine with the inpatient consult teams at Allegheny General Hospital and West Penn Hospital. Her areas of interest include addressing substance use disorders in the inpatient setting, harm reduction, and increasing access to low-barrier healthcare.
Dr. Cuevas received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Notre Dame and her M.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh with a special Concentration in Health Care to Underserved Populations. She completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was also enrolled in the Primary Care Track. After residency, she took a dual appointment in the outpatient primary care academic practice, Internal Medicine Associates, with the Massachusetts General Hospital and in various clinics serving the homeless with the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP). Dr. Cuevas moved to Pittsburgh in 2011, joining the staff at Allegheny General Hospital. Her clinical time is devoted to the education of Internal Medicine Residents at AGH, working as a preceptor in the outpatient resident clinic as well as an attending on the inpatient teaching teams. She also serves as Core Faculty for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Cuevas is one of the founding members of the CIH at AHN. Current projects with CIH include: integration of behavioral health in
