Caroline G. Vines, MD

Caroline Vines, MD is the Department Chair for the LDS Hospital Emergency Department at Intermountain Health. Dr. Vines is strongly interested in quality improvement and findings ways to strengthen the systems in which care is delivered, particularly through the electronic medical record, for emergency patients with pneumonia and substance use disorder. Dr. Vines’s research interests include substance use disorder treatment in the ED, pneumonia care, and clinical decision support. She has led programs to initiate medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) in the emergency department. Dr. Vines is also Chair of the Utah Chapter of The Naloxone Project, which is focused on dispensing naloxone to patients in the emergency department. Dr. Vines is from Juneau, Alaska. Outside of work, she raises her kids with her beloved husband of twenty years, mountain bikes, hikes, trail runs, road cycles, and fumbles as an amateur potter.

Caroline Vines - NCBI Bibliography

Pneumonia, Clinical Decision Support, HIV Testing, Implementation Science