Medical director
Moab Regional Recovery Center, Utah
Paula Donnelly Cook, MD is the medical director of the Moab Regional Recovery Center, a comprehensive addiction medicine program annexed to a critical access non-profit hospital in rural Southeast Utah. She obtained her Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude) and Medical Degrees at the University of Utah. She completed the St Mark's Family Medicine Residency as chief resident and is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine, and board eligible in Integrative Medicine.
She is adjunct faculty at the University of Utah School of Medicine and was the Associate Director during implementation of the University of Utah Addiction Medicine Fellowship. She has been involved with the Utah chapter of ASAM executive and legislative committees as well as other State substance oriented task forces. She has been involved with Project Echo as the lead mentor for the Opioid, Addiction and Pain Project Echo. She was one of the developers of the University of Utah’s Bridge program, a program initiating and linking patients with opioid use disorder to low barrier buprenorphine treatment.
She is a mentor for the Opioid Response Network program and currently serves on the Utah Provider Health Program Executive Committee.
She has been taking care of persons with substance use disorders in primary care, street medicine, outpatient, IOP, residential, OTP (methadone clinic) and inpatient settings and currently enjoys working as part of an low-barrier/low threshold harm reduction based team with involvement in treatment court and the local county jail.
Paula is the co-creator and co-host of The Addiction Files Podcast, a podcast aimed to increase evidence-based substance use competency for medical and behavioral health providers.
Harm Reduction Implementation in a Rural Jail
Saturday, April 6, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
