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Dr. Jennifer Plumb is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician and Professor in the University of Utah Department of Pediatrics and at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is also the Medical Director of Utah Naloxone which is an organization focusing on decreasing the impact of the opioid overdose crisis by equipping individuals and families with naloxone to reverse an opiate overdose. She was born and raised in SLC where her large extended family still lives as well. She attended UCLA for Undergraduate training and the University of Utah for Master’s in Public Health and Medical degrees. Her medical training in Pediatrics was completed at Riley Children’s Hospital/Indiana University and Pediatric Emergency Medicine training was completed at Primary Children’s Hospital. Dr. Plumb is board-certified in Pediatrics and board-certified in Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Plumb is actively leading the Department of Pediatrics Opioid Overdose Death Prevention efforts and serves as the Medical Director of the Utah Naloxone program. She educates and trains a variety of individuals and providers across the state on the use of naloxone to save lives from opioid overdose. This includes physician and medical groups, those within the recovery community, groups working with the homeless population, governmental entities, first responder and law enforcement agencies, family groups, and active users. She is a member of multiple statewide and nationwide task forces to address this crisis, serves on the FDA pediatric advisory committee, and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Substance Use and Prevention (COSUP). She has been involved with the passage of legislation aimed at decreasing Utah’s alarming overdose death and infectious disease transmission rates and has assisted multiple other state’s legislators in working on similar laws. Her academic interests include the impact of naloxone rescue kit availability on opioid overdose deaths, community-based interventions to decrease opioid overdose death and infectious disease transmission, observation medicine, and toxicology.

On a personal level, Dr. Plumb has experience with the devastation created by adolescent substance use and abuse. She lost her brother to a heroin overdose shortly before beginning medical school. She is very committed to the cause of improving the care provided to youth and the resources provided to families in the realm of substance abuse as well as to the importance of education and prevention efforts.

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Primary Children's Hospital

801-662-1000

100 N Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City, UT  84113

Specialties

  • Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Pediatrics - Professor (Clinical)
Academic Divisions Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Board Certification American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)
American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Emergency Medicine)
National Board of Medical Examiners

Dr. Jennifer Plumb is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician and Professor in the University of Utah Department of Pediatrics and at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is also the Medical Director of Utah Naloxone which is an organization focusing on decreasing the impact of the opioid overdose crisis by equipping individuals and families with naloxone to reverse an opiate overdose. She was born and raised in SLC where her large extended family still lives as well. She attended UCLA for Undergraduate training and the University of Utah for Master’s in Public Health and Medical degrees. Her medical training in Pediatrics was completed at Riley Children’s Hospital/Indiana University and Pediatric Emergency Medicine training was completed at Primary Children’s Hospital. Dr. Plumb is board-certified in Pediatrics and board-certified in Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Plumb is actively leading the Department of Pediatrics Opioid Overdose Death Prevention efforts and serves as the Medical Director of the Utah Naloxone program. She educates and trains a variety of individuals and providers across the state on the use of naloxone to save lives from opioid overdose. This includes physician and medical groups, those within the recovery community, groups working with the homeless population, governmental entities, first responder and law enforcement agencies, family groups, and active users. She is a member of multiple statewide and nationwide task forces to address this crisis, serves on the FDA pediatric advisory committee, and is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Substance Use and Prevention (COSUP). She has been involved with the passage of legislation aimed at decreasing Utah’s alarming overdose death and infectious disease transmission rates and has assisted multiple other state’s legislators in working on similar laws. Her academic interests include the impact of naloxone rescue kit availability on opioid overdose deaths, community-based interventions to decrease opioid overdose death and infectious disease transmission, observation medicine, and toxicology.

On a personal level, Dr. Plumb has experience with the devastation created by adolescent substance use and abuse. She lost her brother to a heroin overdose shortly before beginning medical school. She is very committed to the cause of improving the care provided to youth and the resources provided to families in the realm of substance abuse as well as to the importance of education and prevention efforts.

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Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Pediatrics - Professor (Clinical)
Academic Divisions Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Board Certification American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)
American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Emergency Medicine)
National Board of Medical Examiners

Research Interests

  • Toxicology
  • Ultrasound
  • Overdose
  • Substance Use Disorder Prevention

Education History

Fellowship University of Utah School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Fellow, 2011
Residency Indiana University Department of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Resident, 2003
Professional Medical University of Utah School of Medicine
Medicine
M.D., 2000
Graduate Training University of Utah School of Medicine
Public Health
M.P.H., 1996
Undergraduate University of California - Los Angeles
Psychobiology
B.S., 1993

Selected Publications - Journal Articles

Journal Article

  1. Smid M, Gordon AJ, Plumb S, Plumb J (2018). Opioid Use in Pregnancy, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, and Childhood Outcomes: Executive Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Pediatrics, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the March of Dimes Foundation. Obstet Gynecol, 131(1), 163-164.

News Articles

The Rise of Fentanyl Deaths

Prince and the Rising Fentanyl Epidemic

Utah Naloxone: Battling Opioid Overdoses

The Need for Naloxone

The Scope & Other Podcasts

  • My Child Accidentally Took My Opioid Pain Pills
  • You Are More Likely to Die from an Opioid Overdose than a Car Crash
  • The Controversy Behind Naloxone and How One Utah Group Promotes Its Usage to Save Lives
  • Naloxone: A Life-Saving Addition to Your First Aid Kit

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