Safiyya Shabazz, MD

Safiyya Shabazz, MD, FAAFP is the owner and Medical Director of Fountain Medical Associates, PC, a hybrid Direct Primary Care practice specializing in the care of the whole person from childhood through adulthood. Dr. Shabazz is a Diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine and Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

She holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and a Medical Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed an internship at Morehouse Family Medicine in Atlanta before returning to Philadelphia to complete her residency training at UPenn's Department of Family Medicine & Community Health, where she also served on the clinical faculty.

Dr. Shabazz served as president of the Medical Society of Eastern Pennsylvania, the Greater Philadelphia affiliate of the National Medical Association, the nation's oldest and largest association of Black physicians. She has been a featured speaker on local and national programs explaining the link between physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Her advice for health and long life is based on "eating to live" and establishing lasting habits that reduce the risk of death and disease.