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Melissa Cheng

Melissa Cheng, MD, MOH, MHS, FACOEM

Languages spoken: English, Min Nan Chinese, Mandarin Chinese

Clinical Locations

  • Farmington Urgent Care

    801-213-3200
  • Greenwood Urgent Care

    801-213-8840
  • Parkway Health Center

    801-213-9777
  • Redstone Urgent Care

    435-658-9262
  • Redwood Urgent Care

    801-213-8841
  • Redwood Health Center

    801-213-9777
  • South Jordan Urgent Care

    801-213-4500
  • South Jordan Health Center

    801-213-4500
  • Sugar House Urgent Care

    801-581-2000
  • Westridge Urgent Care

    801-213-8843
  • Dr. Melissa Cheng joined the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health after her completion of residency in 2011. She graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine in 2008. She also has a Master of Health Science in International Health with an emphasis on complex humanitarian emergencies from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2003 and Master of Occupational Health from the University of Utah in 2010. Dr. Cheng is the medical director for the University of Utah Occupational Medicine Clinic, which consists of three clinics in the Wasatch Front and she maintains a full spectrum occupational medicine practice. She also consults with major businesses and organizations like Biofire, Union Pacific Railroad and US Customs Border Patrol regarding occupational safety and health. Her educational teaching interests include teaching residents and graduate students in occupational and environmental health and health professionals about SBIRT, a universal screening program for substance use disorder. She was the program director for the University of Utah SBIRT training program and is the founder and director for the Utah SBIRT program. Her research interests includes evaluating the effectiveness of opioid use within the workers compensation system. She has given both local and national presentations on "opioids in the workplace."

    Specialties

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Family & Preventive Medicine - Primary
    Psychiatry - Adjunct
    Academic Divisions
    Adult Psychiatry
  • Dr. Melissa Cheng joined the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health after her completion of residency in 2011. She graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine in 2008. She also has a Master of Health Science in International Health with an emphasis on complex humanitarian emergencies from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2003 and Master of Occupational Health from the University of Utah in 2010. Dr. Cheng is the medical director for the University of Utah Occupational Medicine Clinic, which consists of three clinics in the Wasatch Front and she maintains a full spectrum occupational medicine practice. She also consults with major businesses and organizations like Biofire, Union Pacific Railroad and US Customs Border Patrol regarding occupational safety and health. Her educational teaching interests include teaching residents and graduate students in occupational and environmental health and health professionals about SBIRT, a universal screening program for substance use disorder. She was the program director for the University of Utah SBIRT training program and is the founder and director for the Utah SBIRT program. Her research interests includes evaluating the effectiveness of opioid use within the workers compensation system. She has given both local and national presentations on "opioids in the workplace."

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Family & Preventive Medicine -Primary
    Psychiatry -Adjunct
    Academic Divisions
    Adult Psychiatry

    Research interests

    • Analgesics, Opioid
    • Accidents, Occupational
    • Occupational Medicine

    Education history

    Fellowship Addiction Medicine - University of Utah Fellow
    Occupational Health - University of Utah M.O.H.
    Residency Occupational Medicine - University of Utah Resident
    Internal Medicine - University of Utah Intern
    Professional Medical Medicine - University of Utah M.D.
    International Health - Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health M.H.S.
    Undergraduate Medical Technology - University of Utah B.S.
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