Dr. Melissa Cheng is an Associate Professor at the University of Utah (UofU). She graduated from the UofU School of Medicine in 2008. In 2003, she earned a Master of Health Science in International Health with an emphasis on complex humanitarian emergencies from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a Master of Occupational Health from the UofU in 2010. Dr. Cheng is the founder and director of the UofU Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) training program, a universal screening program for substance use disorder. Her research interests include evaluating the effectiveness of opioid use within the workers compensation system, and she has presented locally and nationally on "opioids in the workplace." Dr. Cheng is board-certified in addiction medicine and practices at the University of Utah Hospital Addiction Consult Service. She is also the Clinical Medical Director for Comagine Health where she works on various projects improving the quality and access to care for opioid use disorder.
