Faculty physician
Utah Healthcare Institute
Paula Cook, MD is a Faculty physician for Utah Health Care Institute. She obtained her Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude) and Medical Degrees at the University of Utah.
She completed the St Marks Family Medicine Residency as chief resident and is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine. 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.
Paula is currently completing the University of Arizona’s Integrative medicine fellowship and certified in NADA, an ear acupuncture protocol.
She has served as the Chief Medical Officer for a large non-profit treatment program and primary care clinic targeting people with addiction.
Paula is the co-creator and co-host of The Addiction Files Podcast, a podcast aimed to increase medical and behavioral health provider competence in recognizing and treating addiction.
She has experience consulting with Southeast Utah’s rural primary care and hospitals (Southeast Utah Addiction Medicine Consortium) and 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 enjoys working with patients and providers in this satisfying and important work. Paula currently serves on the Utah Provider Health Program Executive Committee.
