Sarah Axelrath, MD

Sarah Axelrath is a primary care, addiction, and street medicine physician at Colorado Coalition for the Homeless' Stout Street Health Center in Denver, CO. Dr. Axelrath has worked in the fields of homelessness and harm reduction for more than a decade, both in direct service roles as well as in policy advocacy to expand legalized syringe access and naloxone distribution throughout Colorado. After graduating from the University of Colorado School of Medicine through the urban/underserved training track, she completed both her internal medicine residency and addiction medicine fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. There, she also worked with Boston Healthcare for the Homeless to offer mobile, low-threshold harm reduction and addiction treatment services on the streets of Boston. She has since returned to her home state where she serves as an advisory board member for the Colorado Drug Policy Coalition advocating for non-carceral, public health and human rights-informed approaches to substance use. She provides full-time primary and specialty addiction care to people experiencing homelessness and living with substance use disorder by "meeting them where they're at" - in the clinic, at the shelter, or on the streets.