Posts by utahafp

Practice: I worked for twenty years with Premier Family Medical, originally Tri-City Medical in Pleasant Grove, Utah. I did OB and admissions at American Fork Hospital. I now work at Premise Health in an outpatient Family Medicine clinic, no call or after hours, three days a week in Utah County. Residency: Pueblo, Colorado A bit…

Practice: I am currently the Division Chief for Family Medicine at the University of Utah, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. Although I have a lot of administrative responsibilities, I still practice part-time at the Sugarhouse Health Center in Salt Lake City. I also supervise family medicine residents and health sciences students during their training.…

Interested in becoming a Qualified Medical Provider or a Limited Medical Provider with the Utah medical cannabis program? This video will help you: Understand the difference between the QMP program and the LMP program.  Learn what the qualifying medical conditions are for cannabis use in Utah.  Find out which types of medicinal dosage forms of…

The Utah Department of Health and Human Services is creating a long COVID surveillance system and we are depending on clinicians to use the long covid ICD-10 code (U09.9) to allow us to track this condition. ·       Long COVID is a syndrome comprising a wide range of symptoms that impacts approximately one in five people who…

Practice: I am the Medical Director of the Intensive Outpatient Clinic at the University of Utah, where we see patients with complex medical and behavioral health needs. We work in an integrated care team of medical providers, therapists, and case managers in order to provide very high touch care, address social determinants, improve outcomes, and…

A bit about Dr. Alden: I am a proud Chinese-American that grew up in Taiwan until age 10 and then moved to Utah. In high school, I kept busy in choir, band, orchestra and dance. I met my husband Kael in college and we moved to California to purse a career in music and my…

Practice: I have reduced my practice to 2.5 days per week in the clinic, I as well work with hospice on other days. We have a full service Family Practice with clinics in Coalville and Kamas. Out practices provide training to a regular rotation of students-PA, Med School, Residents and NP students. The students enjoy…

Practice: I’m currently the Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at Noorda-COM in Provo. We currently have MS1’s and MS2’s and have already begun interviews for next fall. Most of my time has been spent building our core and adjunct faculty ranks, creating lecture content, working with area hospitals and health systems as we gear up…

RSV is a common virus which can cause serious illness in young children. RSV season occurs in UT each year, usually between December and April. The COVID 19 pandemic and infection control measures implemented during the pandemic have changed the timing of these seasonal outbreaks. This has important consequences for when to start passive immunization…

UAFP’s Annual Meeting was held this year at Thanksgiving Point. We are so glad to be able to host this event in-person once again and see so many physicians at every stage of their careers; from those early in their medical school journey to those semi-retired. We were also excited to kick off our 75th…