Safiyya Shabazz, MD

Dr. Safiyya Shabazz is a board-certified family medicine physician and the owner and medical director of Fountain Medical Associates, PC, a hybrid Direct Primary Care practice in Philadelphia treating patients from childhood through adulthood. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

She holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and earned her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. After an internship at Morehouse Family Medicine in Atlanta, she returned to Philadelphia for residency training in UPenn's Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, where she later served on the clinical faculty. She went on to serve as president of the Medical Society of Eastern Pennsylvania, the Greater Philadelphia affiliate of the National Medical Association, and has spoken on local and national programs about the link between physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Her guiding philosophy is simple, eating to live and building lasting habits that lower the risk of death and disease.