Nanette C. Dudley, MD

Languages Spoken: English

Dr. Nanette Dudley received her medical degree from The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, completed her Pediatric residency at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and her Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Dudley is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

She is currently a Professor (Clinical) of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and is in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Primary Children´s Hospital. Dr. Dudley is the Quality Improvement Director for the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Her specific clinical interests are in trauma and family-centered care.

Her academic interests include evaluating performance measures for Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emergency Preparedness and Quality Improvement. She sees patients in the Emergency Department at Primary Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Dudley received her undergraduate education at Franklin and Marshall College and her M.D. from The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. After completing postgraduate training in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/ University of Pennsylvania, she moved to Utah to begin her academic career.

Dr. Dudley is a Faculty member at the University of Utah School of Medicine, where she is a Professor of Pediatrics (Clinical). During her tenure at the University of Utah, Dr. Dudley has been the Fellowship Director, Director of Pediatric Advanced Life Support programs at PCMC, and currently is the Director of Quality Improvement for the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She has a longstanding interest in education, and is a member of the Resident Program Evaluation Committee and has chaired the committee that formulated the resident curriculum for the pediatric ED. She is also the Chair for the Department of Pediatrics’ Department Advisory Committee for Faculty Appointment, Review & Advancement.

Dr. Dudley’s research currently is focused on the evaluation of Pediatric Emergency Medicine performance measures, as well as quality improvement. She also has interests in family-centered care and pediatric trauma. She has mentored several fellow projects, and has an interest in faculty mentorship.

Dr. Dudley is a Fellow of both the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Pediatrics and has served as a member of the Utah ACEP Board of Directors, and the AAP’s Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She is involved in the broader emergency medicine community in Utah, organizing a quarterly joint conference between general emergency medicine providers and pediatric emergency medicine providers. She is the co-chair of IPEC (Intermountain Pediatric Emergency Collaborative).

Locally, Dr. Dudley has been an advocate for children, serving on the Utah Child Fatality Review Committee, a multidisciplinary committee reviewing child homicide, suicide and injury deaths in the state.