Jennifer O'Donohoe, MD

Languages Spoken: English, Hebrew, Spanish

Dr. Jennifer O’Donohoe graduated from the Triple Board Residency Program at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She is a board certified pediatrician, psychiatrist, and child psychiatrist. She currently works as an inpatient attending physician at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute (UNI). She sees patients aged 4-17 years old with a wide variety of psychiatric diagnoses. Dr. O’Donohoe has treated patients in both the inpatient and day treatment settings. In these settings, she treats her patient’s psychiatric illnesses as well as their medical illnesses. Her areas of clinical interest include those with severe mental illness, requiring inpatient hospitalization as well as developmental disorders. She also focuses on the interconnectedness of psychiatric illnesses and those illnesses traditional seen as physical.

Dr. Jennifer O’Donohoe graduated from Carleton College with a B.A. in English Literature. After volunteering in an underserved hospital in Ho, Ghana, she decided on a career in medicine. She attended the Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Certificate Program at Mills College. Because of her commitment to International Medicine, she attended The Medical School for International Health, which is a collaboration between Ben Gurion University and Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. O’Donohoe completed her triple board (pediatrics/psychiatry/child psychiatry) training at the University of Utah in 2012. She is a board certified pediatrician, psychiatrist, and child psychiatrist. Dr. O’Donohoe joined the University of Utah School of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry in 2012 as a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist. She has a special interest in psychotherapy and continues to be actively involved in developing the psychotherapy curriculum for triple board residents and child psychiatry fellows. Another area of academic interest is Integrative Medicine. She was a resident member of the AACAP Committee on Complementary and Integrative Medicine and has continued on as an early psychiatrist member. She is the Associate Training Director for the child psychiatry and triple board residency programs. Another area of interest is medical student education. She is a facilitator for the medical student course, Layers of Medicine.