Alyssa Bruehlman received her B.A. in Dance and Movement Studies from Emory University. She earned her M.D. at the University of Pittsburgh where she was awarded the Ferrante Prize in Family Medicine and was one of the founding members of School of Medicine's Social Medicine Fellowship Program. She completed her family medicine residency followed by academic and addiction medicine fellowships at the University of Wisconsin in Madison where she received awards for advocacy and clinical teaching. She spent a year providing inpatient addiction and family medicine care as an instructor at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA before joining the UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine Residency Program in Fall 2024. Her professional interests include integrating person-centered and harm reduction-focused addiction care within primary, perinatal, and hospital care settings. She strongly believes in the power of longitudinal and multigenerational patient relationships unique to family medicine. She appreciates the opportunity to teach and learn from family medicine residents who will be future leaders in this field.
Beyond the hospital and clinic walls, Alyssa loves spending time with her husband, two young daughters, and her beloved but overly enthusiastic terrier mix. She enjoys spending time outdoors as well as cooking (or more importantly eating) any and all foods.