Wayne Centrone is a physician and public health professional who has dedicated his career to working with high risk and marginalized homeless and underserved populations around the world. After finishing a family medicine residency, Wayne completed a one-year fellowship training program in “Homeless and Underserved Medicine” at Outside In Medical Clinic in Portland, Oregon.
Wayne has also completed a graduate certificate program from the University of Oxford in the delivery of healthcare services to homeless populations. Dr. Centrone has extensive experience with homeless adolescents and young adult populations – presenting at conferences about novel approaches to caring for high-risk vulnerable groups. In addition, Wayne has helped to develop a model outreach program targeting high-risk homeless populations. Dr. Centrone was the former outreach medical director of a Health Care for the Homeless program that worked to bring harm reduction services directly to the streets for hard to reach homeless young adults.