- Chronic disease management
- Gender affirming health care
- Gender affirming hormone therapy
- LGBTQ+ primary care
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Preventive health
- Wellness examination
Elizabeth (Libby) Wetterer, MD
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Family Medicine
LGBTQ+ affirming provider
Additional provider information
Accepting new patients
Sees patients of all ages
Penn Family Care
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Community Health
My education and training
- Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine
- Residency: Montefiore Medical Center
Spoken languages
English
English
Español
Spanish
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
- Devoted Health Choice Giveback Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Plus Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Core Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Devoted Health Dual Plus Pennsylvania (HMO D-SNP)
- Devoted Health Giveback Pennsylvania (HMO)
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Family Medicine, 2023
- American Academic of Family Physicians (AAFP), National
- American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP), National
- Family Medicine Education Consortium, National
- National Abortion Federation (NAF), National
- Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP), Local
- Physicians for a National Health Program (PHNP), National
- Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP), National
- Society of Family Planning, National
- The AAFP Foundation, National
- Penn LGBTQ Health Program
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Libby Wetterer, Gabrielle Ruzgas Medication Abortion 14-20 Weeks , Reproductive Health Access Projects, June Contraceptive Insight: 2026
Libby Wetterer Pregnancy Options Counseling Should Reflect Best Evidence on Mental Health Effect , AFP Community Blog: 2026
Libby Wetterer The power of prevention: How to reduce accidental poisonings in Philadelphia | Expert opinion , Philadelphia Inquirer: 2026
Alexandra Martinez with quotes from Libby Wetterer Louisiana lawsuit targeting telehealth access to abortion pill could ripple nationwide, providers warn , Prism: 2026
Libby Wetterer, MD, Grace Halsey Self-Managed Abortion in Post-Dobbs America: Family Physician Libby Wetterer, MD, Looks Back and Ahead , Patient Care: 2025
Ashley Adams with quotes from Libby Wetterer MD From clinics to crisis: Pennsylvania women will feel the pain of Medicaid cuts , Keystone Newsroom: 2025
Libby Wetterer, MD∙ Hannah Rosenfield, MD ∙ Hilary Gortler, MD, MSc ∙ Martha Simmons, MD Abortion in Primary Care , Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 0(0): 2025
Bah, FatoumataWallace, RobinFoster, Angel M.Wetterer, LibbyGrant, MelissaSietstra, Cari et al. Learning from medication abortion: Repeat doses of misoprostol after mifepristone for early pregnancy loss management , Contraception, 0(0): 2025
Shonitria Anthony with quotes from Libby Wetterer MD When Black Moms Decide To Use Weed For Postpartum Healing , HuffPost Voices: 2025
Celine Castronuovo with quotes from Libby Wetterer MD Abortion Ballot Fights Revive Mental Health Exception Debates , Bloomberg Law: 2024