John Weems, M.D., FASAM

John Weems M.D., FASAM, is a practicing internal medicine physician and addiction medicine specialist serving medically underserved communities at CommUnityCare Health Centers in Austin. In his capacity as associate director of addiction medicine, he is responsible for increasing access to high-quality addiction medicine services.

Weems trains medical students and residents as a faculty member at Dell Medical School. He also is the lead subject matter expert for Support Hospital Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (SHOUT) Texas, a Department of Health and Human Services-funded multiyear project increasing access to opioid use disorder treatment in safety-net hospitals across Texas.

A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he completed an internal medicine primary care residency followed by an addiction medicine fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Charlestown Community Health Center. He is board-certified in addiction medicine and internal medicine.