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Classes of 1976-2000
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1976-1980
1976
John W. Dodson, M.D.Dr. Dodson works in emergency care at Largo Medical Center in Florida. He has worked there since 1981 and been the medical director since 1984. He and his wife have 2 children. John also reports that he is still playing 4.0/4.5 tennis at age 60.
Val Dunn, M.D.Dr. Dunn practices radiology in Provo and American Fork. He served as a colonel in the US Air Force Reserve. He was a faculty member at the University of Iowa for 2 years. He has 6 children, 2 are heading towards a career in medicine.
Merril T. Dayton, M.D.Dr. Dayton moved to Buffalo, New York in 2003, where he is the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the State University of New York. From 1990 to 1994 he was the Dean of the Medical School Admissions at the University of Utah.
W. Patrick Knibbe, M.D.Dr. Knibbe moved to Boise, Idaho after 20 years in practice in Salt Lake City at LDS Hospital. He is the director of the Idaho Rheumatologists Association and the medical director of Intermountain Research. He serves on the board of directors for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival.
Fritjof F. Langeland, M.D.Dr. Langeland is an OB/GYN at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is serving as the president of the University of Utah School of Medicine Alumni Association.
Thomas Scott Lindley, M.D.Dr. Lindley practices plastic surgery at Alta View Hospital in Sandy, Utah. He has been married for 32 years and has 4 children.
Alan R. Rowley, M.D., C.H.E., A.B.R.M.Dr. Rowley is living in California where he is an independent contractor and also semi-retired. He was a chief of staff and professor of family medicine during his career. He also is a retired navy captain and has served in Vietnam as well as the Persian Gulf wars.
Sherman C. Smith, M.D.Dr. Sherman has a private practice in surgery for 22 years. He was past chairman of the department of surgery at LDS Hospital. He also worked at St. Mark's and Holy Cross Hospitals. He and his wife have been married for 34 years and he has 5 children.
Gerald N. Telep, M.D.Dr. Telep practices orthopedic surgery at U.S. Healthworks Medical Group in California.
1977
Klea D. Bertakis, M.D., M.P.H.Dr. Bertakis resides in Davis, California, where he is in his second five-year term as Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at U.C. Davis. In 1979 the Western Student Medical Research Forum awarded the first "Klea D. Bertakis Award". This award is given annually to a medical student for excellence in research.
Paul F. Bray, M.D.Dr. Bray practices medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He has been Chief of Hematology at Jefferson Medical College, director of the Cardeza Foundation for Hematologic Research, and an investigator for the Women’s Health Initiative. He and his wife, Nancy, and their son Sean, live in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania.
K. Ning Chang, M.D.Dr. Chang practices plastic surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center and the California Plastic Surgery Clinic in San Francisco. He received the Outstanding Clinical Faculty Award from the University of California, San Francisco, and placed first in the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation scholarship contest in 1981 and 1984. He is also the author of numerous articles and book chapters on various aspects of surgery.
Kate Kohler, M.D.Dr Kohler retired from practicing obstetrics/gynecology in January 2006. She has served as an ACOG section chairman, as volunteer medical director of Albany County Family Planning for twenty-four years, knitted over 1,000 baby caps for newborns since 1994, and has been married for 39 years. She currently resides in Green Valley, Arizona.
Don L. Reese, M.D.Dr. Reese has completed twenty-six years of private practice of dermatology in Salt Lake City. He and his wife, Rebecca, have five healthy children and two marvelous grandchildren.
1978
Kim C. Bertin, M.D.
Dr. Bertin practices Orthopedic Surgery in Salt Lake City. He reported that his practice is now limited to total knee and total hip replacements.
David Busath, M.D.
Dr. Busath has been the Thomas L. Martin Professor of Anatomy, Physiology, Biophysics and Neuroscience at BYU since 1995. From 1983 to 1995 he was a professor at Brown University. He has published over 60 scientific publications and has mentored graduate and undergraduate students on over 300 biophysics research projects. He is remarried and has eight children.
Robert M. Christiansen, M.D.
Dr. Christiansen has been in the private practice of ophthalmology since he completed his residency. His office is adjacent to LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. Dr. Christiansen's special interest is in vision rehabilitation and the care of the partially sighted, and he has served nationally in the American Academy of Ophthalmology to further the care of those who cannot be helped further with their vision through medical or surgical means. Dr. Christiansen also serves as an adjunct associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
Victor A. Diaz M.D.
Dr. Diaz completed his internship and residency in general surgery at UTMB Galveston from 1978-83. In 2004 he was named as a diplomat for the American Board of Surgery; in 2005 he was named a fellow for the American College of Surgeons. Currently he is serving as Chief of Surgery at Providence Memorial Hospital in El Paso, Texas. He and his wife, Susan, have been married 33 years and have four children: Laura, 30; Nicholas, 28; Joseph, 25; and Anthony, 23.
Richard Y. Farnsworth, M.D.
Dr. Farnsworth and his wife, Becky, have been married for 33 years. They have four sons, three daughters-in law, and six grandchildren. Dr. Farnsworth has a successful pediatrics practice at Utah Valley Pediatrics in Provo, Utah. He has served in Boy Scouts for over 20 years and served an LDS mission in Korea with his wife from 2004-2006. He was the chairman of the Pediatrics Department at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center and also serves as an associate clinical professor in the Division of Community Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
Ren Imai, M.D.
Dr. Imai is married to Janet Habegger, a graduate of the Indiana School of Medicine. They have two children: Derek, 25; and Laura, 23. Ren and Janet have practiced family medicine in Reedley, California since 1981. They are currently employed by community medical providers, a group of approximately 40 primary care providers in Fresno and the surrounding communities. Dr. Imai is also CFO of Sante Community Physicians, the local IPA.
Brent D. Jackson, M.D.
Dr. Jackson is a past president of the Utah Academy of Family Physicians and a former Governing Board Member for Intermountain Healthcare. He and his wife raised seven children, six of which have completed college degrees; the seventh is currently a student at Utah State University. Dr. Jackson is a certified scuba dive control specialist and a scout master to four national scout jamborees and two world scout jamborees.
Michael Lahey, M.D.
Dr. Lay joined the Houstaff Outpatient Clinic at LDS hospital 10 years ago. He is now teaching almost full time in the University of Utah Internal Medicine Ambulatory Clinic and loving every minute of it! His wife, Kate, retired from her law practice 7 years ago in order to write novels which are a treat to read. Their only child, Tim, joined the Infectious Disease Department at Dartmouth four years ago. Dr. Lahey feels rather blessed with a 41-year marriage, a great practice, a pretty good tennis game, and a never ending supply of contemporary American novelists.
Paul D. Larsen, M.D.
Dr. Larsen is a professor of pediatrics and neurological science at the University of Nebraska. He is a recipient of the University of Nebraska's highest teaching award, the 2007 Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award. He has also developed educational website for the neurology and pediatric neurology exams that are being used in the US and internationally.
Jeffrey L. Mathews, M.D.
Dr. Matthews is a practicing rheumatologist at the Athletic Clinic of Central Utah in Provo, Utah. He is board-certified internal medicine FACP, a founding fellow in rheumatology FACP, and board-certified in emergency medicine FACEP. He and his wife have nine children and 18 grandchildren.
Ellen Perricci, M.D.
Dr. Perricci is a practicing psychiatrist and adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan. In 2008, she celebrated her 30th wedding anniversary with her husband, Michael, in Italy. In October of 2008, Dr. Perricci attended a writer's course with Marilyn Grams.
R. Coleen Stice, M.D., FACS
Dr. Stice is a lifetime member of the American College of Physician Executives and has spent 20 years collecting medical/surgical supplies and transporting them to Guatemala, Siberia, Lithuania, and Tanzania. In those countries she established outpatient clinics, treated patients and plastic reconstruction, established laparoscopic surgery, began peptic ulcer treatment clinics, and trained nurses, pharmacists, and dentists in Tobolsk, Russia. She and her husband, Robert Wells, have three daughters: Sarah, 31; Emily, 22; and Caitlin, 18.
David Thomas, M.D.
Dr. Thomas practices Plastic Surgery in Salt Lake City.
1981-1985
1981
Lowry H. Bushnell, M.D.Dr. Bushnell is the chair of the Utah State Drug Utilization Review Board and president of the professional staff at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute. He has 5 daughters and 3 grandchildren. He reports that he has lived in Utah for 56 years and is still an unrepentant liberal.
Richard H. Moore, M.D.Dr. Moore was hired by the Arizona Health Department as a physician trainer in the Bureau of Emergency Preparedness and Response in January 2006. Prior to this appointment, he was a public health emergency officer in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. He retired from the US Army in December 2005.
Lee W. Vance, M.D. F.C.C.P., F.A.C.P.Dr. Vance is the director of the pulmonary clinic at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. He was the assistant professor of medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He is currently a fellow of the American College of Physicians. He joined the Navy in 2004 after 23 years in a civilian medical practice. He married his wife Brenda in 2002 and they have a blended family of 9 children and step-children.
Arden L. Weintraub, M.D.Dr. Weintraub is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Valley Mental Health and Gateway Academy. In 2002, he received the outstanding teaching award for child psychiatry.
1982
Stephen George Babel, M.D.Dr. Babel is an interventional radiologist affiliated with Heart Hospital of New Mexico and the Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo. He was recently inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Radiology.
Joseph Q. Jarvis, M.D.Dr. Jarvis has served at the State Health Officer in Nevada and as faculty at the National Jewish Center in Denver, Colorado. He was a Utah State Senate Candidate in 2006. Dr. Jarvis is currently serving as board chair and president of the Utah Health Policy Project.
Max S. Lundberg, M.D.Dr. Lundberg practices rheumatology at Alta View Hospital in Sandy, UT.
Paul McBride, M.D.Dr. McBride lives in Snohomish, WA and is an allergist/immunologist for the Everett Clinic. One of his most significant achievements was developing a clinical research center.
1983
D. Bradley Welling, M.D., Ph.D.Dr. Welling lives in Columbus Ohio, and is the Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at Ohio State University.
Camille Collett, M.D.
Dr. Collett is a volunteer associate professor in the Department of Family and Preventative Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Her clinical practice is at the Oquirrh View Community Health Center where she sees adults, children, and obstetrical patients. She and her husband, Peter Conwell, love to travel and rafted the entire length of the Colorado River in 2005. Their son, Daniel, is attending Montana State University in Bozeman. Dr. Collett is active in the Utah Medical Association, as one of the co-presidents of the Women's Physician Section.
Kevin Colver, M.D.
Dr. Colver is currently serving as a hospitalist at Intermountain Health Care in Provo, Utah. He practices inpatient and outpatient general internal medicine in Payson, Utah for 18 years. In 2004, Dr. Colver closed his practice and began working as an internist hospitalist at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. Dr. Culver's passion is to record the sounds of nature. He and his wife, Shannon, have six children.
Wendell A. Gibby, M.D.
Dr. Gibby is the director of the Riverwoods Advanced Imaging Center in Provo, Utah. He is the director of radiology at True Imaging in Gilbert, Arizona and the owner of NovaRad Corporation in American Fork, Utah. In 2006, Dr. Gibby was voted as one of the top 20 radiologists in the nation. Dr. Gibby adores his wife and five children. He's a leader in his church, active in politics and working for healthcare reform in Utah. He has a passion for life and enjoys exploring, hiking, and rafting wilderness areas throughout the world.
Kevin Miller, M.D.
Dr. Miller is a practicing ophthalmologist at Opthalmic Associates in Las Vegas, Nevada. He completed he residency in ophthalmology in 1987, and completed a fellowship in glaucoma in 1988.
Carolyn Rich-Denson, M.D.
Dr. Rich-Denson is a practicing neonatologist at McKay Dee Hospital. She survived being a single mother to three teenagers, all while working full time. Dr. Rich-Denson has four children: Lisa is a PA in Tucson, Arizona; David is pre-med at Utah State University; Leslie is pre-med at Weber State University; and her youngest, Paul, is a sophomore at Bonneville High.
David S. Riley, M.D.
Dr. Riley is a practice internal medicine/integrative medicine physician living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His practice is located at the Integrative Medicine Institute also in Santa Fe.
Jeffrey R. Smith, M.D.
Dr. Smith is a practicing orthopaedic surgeon at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, Timpanogos Regional Hospital, and Orem Community Hospital. He has his wife, Karen, have six children and four grandchildren. Dr. Smith completed his residency at Brooke Army Medical Center in orthopaedic surgery. He completed a fellowship in 1991 and the University of Utah in total joint/adult reconstruction. Dr. Smith currently serves on the UVRMC Credential Committee.
Ronald Wyatt, M.D.
Dr. Wyatt is currently serving as chief of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Podiatry at the Permanente Medical Group in Walnut Creek, California. He also serves as an examiner for the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery, an expert reviewer for the Medical Board of California, and the chair of chiefs for the Permanente Medical Group, Northern California.
1984
Barry F. Bennett, M.D.
Dr. Bennett is practicing family medicine and obstetrics at the Southeast Idaho Family Practice in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He is a member of the Idaho State Board of Medicine, past president of the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians, past president of the Idaho Falls Medical Society. Currently, he is the medical staff president of Mountain View Hospital in Idaho Falls.
Ronald W. Day, M.D.
Dr. Day is a practicing pediatric cardiologist at Primary Children's Medical Center. He is married to Mara Jones and they have three beautiful daughters. At Primary Children's, Dr. Day developed a pulmonary hypertension program.
Robert Foote, M.D.
Dr. Foote is a consultant for and professor of radiation oncology at the Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. He is also the chair of the Radiation Oncology Subcommittee and the Education Exhibits Committee for the Radiological Society of North America. Dr. Foote was recently inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Radiology at a formal convocation ceremony in Washington, D.C.
J. Brent Muhlestein, M.D.
Dr. Muhlestein is a professor of medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is the director of cardiology research at Intermountain Medical Center. His cardiology practice is also at the Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah. Dr. Muhlestein is the proud father of 11 children and four grandchildren.
Marilyn A. Roubidoux, MD
Dr. Roubidoux is a professor of radiology at the University of Michigan. She is married to Reed Dunnick, MD and they have three beautiful daughters and three grandchildren. Dr. Roubidoux has published 82 scientific publications and given 197 national presentations, mostly about breast imaging. In 2008 she received the University of Michigan Faculty Award for Telemammography for American Indian Reservations. She is still playing piano and skiing.
Tom. D. Thacher, M.D.
Dr. Thacher practices family medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. After his residency, Dr. Thatcher worked with a Christian organization in Nigeria for nearly 20 years. He founded a residency training program in family medicine at the Jos Univesrity Teaching Hospital in Nigeria. He also developed a research interest in nutritional rickets and has published extensively on the subject. He joined the Family Medicine Department at the Mayo Clinic in 2007.
1985
Jeffrey G. Wong, M.D.Dr. Wong has served as the Associate Dean for Medical Education at the Medical University of South Carolina since 2004. Prior to that, he served in leadership positions in primary care residency programs at Yale University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Heather Krueger, M.D.
Dr. Krueger began a very pleasant, stable, part-time Pediatric (Newborn) Hospitalist position at a small private hospital in the North Carolina Blue Ridge Mountains in June of 2008. She has two children graduating from college, one from George Mason University and one from BYU this coming spring and two still in high school, one who is living with his father in South Carolina, and one in fifth grade. She was a mother-of-the bride on December 23, 2008!
1986-1990
1986
Michael D. Adams, M.D.Dr. Adams lives in Wyoming where he has a private practice in Family Medicine. He has received several awards from the Boy Scouts of American and was the president of the Uintah County Medical Society. He has 2 sons and 2 grandchildren.
Michael Marushack, M.D.Dr. Marushack is currently practicing orthopedic surgery and sports medicine at Orthopedic Specialists in Pennsylvania. He and wife Mary have 2 children.
Steven K. Miller, M.D.Dr. Miller is the director of the Ear Nose and Throat Surgery Center and a delegate to the American Medical Association. He is the father of 4 children and enjoys swimming, traveling and skiing with his children.
1987
John Adair, M.D.Dr. Adair practices Neurology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM.
Rex Head, M.D.Dr. Head supervises several mental health clinics in southeastern Idaho. He is the founder and director of the Orphanage Support Services Organization (OSSO) which supports developing world orphanages and consults on orphanage care worldwide. He is the father of five children and currently resides with his wife, Melodie, in Rexburg, Idaho.
Jamie E. Ohriner, M.D.Dr. Ohriner practices pediatrics at Fair Oaks Hospital and has served as the Pediatric Unit medical director. She is married to William Ohriner, who is also a pediatrician. They live in McLean, VA and have four children.
1988
Chris Anderson, M.D.
Dr. Anderson has worked in pulmonary critical care in Ogden, Utah for the past 12 years at McKay Dee Hospital and Ogden Regional Hospital. An experience, he says, "has provided a great opportunity to treat interesting patients and complex illnesses." He has three children: Laura, Eric, and Dylan. Skiing, running, and traveling take up the rest of his life.
Sandra Calman, M.D.
After ten years in full-time clinical practice, half time in primary care and half time in urgent care/ER, Dr. Calman transitioned full-time into biotech/pharma. She is currently chief medical officer and VP of clinical development for Isolagen, Inc, whose main undertaking is wound and scar healing with cellular therapy. She also led the medical and clinical research branch at Dey LP (KGaA), Merck, and Johnson and Johnson, as well as Dow Pharmaceutical. She lives on the coast near San Francisco on eight acres (which is heaven) with seven children, one dog, one horse, three cats, and dozens of wild animals around on a daily basis.
Joy Leverich, M.D.
Dr. Leverich has had a successful rural general surgery practice in Wilmington, Ohio. She currently practices at Clinton Memorial Hospital. She and her husband have been married 25 years and are the proud parents of a 12-year-old daughter. Dr. Leverich says, "I am proud to be a graduate of University of Utah and the School of Medicine - they have accomplished great things!"
Ernest A. Lucero, M.D.
Dr. Lucero lives in Bonners Ferry, Idaho and has a general surgery private practice. He said, "Still working...not on Medicare (yet)."
Craig Marsden, M.D.
Dr. Marsden is currently practicing emergency medicine at Intermountain Health Center in Murray, Utah. He has served as president of the Utah Chapter of ACEP, and as a board member of Ascend Alliance. Dr. Marsden and his wife have five children.
Sheryl Zimmerman, M.D.
Dr. Zimmerman is currently working as a pediatric rehabilitation hospitalist in Dallas, Texas at Our Children's House at Baylor. She and her husband are raising two teenage boys, one of whom is medically fragile.
1990
John W. Robinson, M.D., S.M.Dr. Robinson founded the St. Mark's Family Residency program in 1994, and served as the Program Director from 1994 to 2004. He was President of the Utah Healthcare Institute from 1999 to 2004.
Kyle Barnett, M.D.Dr. Barnett has been practicing gastroenterology in Shreveport, Louisiana for the past 14 years. This past April he moved back to Utah to start his practice with Granite Peaks Gastroenterology in Sandy, Utah. He and his family are excited to return to Utah and he looks forward to seeing previous classmates.
1991-1995
1991
Van G. Christiansen, M.D.Dr. Christiansen has a family practice at the Canyon View Ogden Clinic. He and his wife, Dawn, have 5 children.
Liz Jensen, M.D.Dr. Jensen is the chief of pathology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center. She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband and children.
Russell Meldrum, M.D.Dr. Meldrum has a practice at Indiana University. He was recently promoted to associate professor with tenure. Also, he recently received the Orthopedic and Education Foundation Career Development Award.
Buddy Ray Nielson, M.D.Dr. Nielson practices anesthesiology at the Citizens Medical Center in Texas. And, he serves on the credentials committee at Deltar Health Care System. He and his wife, Parivesh, have 3 children.
Richard J. Olsen, M.D.Dr. Olsen is a pediatric ophthalmologist at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
David L. Tanner, M.D.Dr. Tanner is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Primary Children's Medical Center. He and his wife, Stephanie, were married in 2003 and have a daughter.
1992
Kandice Knigge, M.D.Dr. Knigge currently lives in Portland, Oregon where she is the Gastroenterology Fellowship Director at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). She is also the American College of Gastroenterology Governor for the Oregon Region, and the Assistant Medical Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic at OHSU.
Lloyd Jensen, M.D.Dr. Jensen practices pediatrics in Idaho at the Pocatello Children’s Clinic at the Portneuf Medical Center. He is enjoying life in Idaho with his family.
Robert C. Moesinger, M.D.Dr. Moesinger is a gastrointestinal surgeon at McKay-Dee Hospital and Ogden Regional Hospital. He has been an assistant professor in surgical oncology and associate director of surgical residency program at the University of Maryland, as well as the general surgery assistant chief of service at John Hopkins Hospital. He is married to Sheila Magnon Moesinger and has five children.
Craig Shane, M.D.Dr. Shane is practicing emergency medicine at LDS Hospital and Intermountain Medical Center. He is the chairman of LDS Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine and associate medical director of Intermountain Life Flight.
Steven Warnock, M.D.Dr. Warnock practices medicine at Primary Children’s Medical Center and Alta View Hospital. He did cranial facial surgery with a volunteer service in Guatemala. He is currently keeping busy with his cosmetic surgery practice.
1993
Nathan Call, M.D.
Dr. Call is a practicing family medicine physician at Intermountain Health in Providence, Utah. He completed his resident in family medicine in 1996.
Bruce McAllister, M.D.
Dr. McAllister is a practicing radiation oncologist. After being away eight years in California, and four years in Arizona, Dr. McAllister says he was fortunate enough to find work in Utah in 2006.
R. Neil Van Leeuwen, M.D.
Dr. Van Leeuwen completed his residency in otolaryngology at the University of Missouri. Afterward, he spent eight years practicing in the US Air Force. Three of those years he served at Hill Air Force Base in Layton, Utah. He then served five years at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, where he also served as the surgical specialties commander. He spent one year in private practice following his service before joining the Tanner Clinic in Layton. He and his wife, Cathy, life in Kaysville with four of their six children. Their oldest, Ben, is served an LDS mission in Minnesota and their daughter Amanda is at BYU-Idaho for college.
1994
Keith Soderberg, M.D.Dr. Soderberg practices in an eight man ENT group in Tuscon, Arizona. They cover three of the main hospitals in town and provide full service ENT, allergy, pediatrics, and head and neck surgery. He and his family love the warmth of Arizona but miss skiing at times during the winter.
Sarah Bronsky, M.D.
Dr. Bronsky practices family medicine at Bozeman Creek Family Health, in Bozeman Montana. She is currently raising two children: Zoë, age 7; and Max, age 5.
Evelyn Driscoll, M.D.
Dr. Driscoll is a practicing psychiatrist at the Center for Mental Health in Helena, Montana. Her practice is in general adult psychiatry-community and rural. She has two children: Dominic, age 17, who was born while she was a second year student, is now a senior in high school; and, Lauren, age 15, who is a sophomore.
Ken Liechty, M.D.
Dr. Liechty is a practicing pediatric surgeon at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. He has three children, and the youngest is 11 months. Dr. Liechty is a NIH-funded investigator and is in the fetal surgery program at Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania.
Paul D. Whitehead, M.D.
Dr. Whitehead completed his internship, residency, and two fellowships in Connecticut. He is a forensic psychiatrist and clinical director of the Forensic Unit at the Utah State Hospital as well as adjunct faculty at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is married and has one daughter.
1995
Matthew Hansen, M.D.Dr. Hansen went to the University of Michigan for his residency in pediatrics and is currently a pediatric hematologist/oncologist in Boise, Idaho.
1996-2000
1996
David Affleck, M.D.Dr. Affleck is a cardiothoracic surgeon at St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is married and has 4 children.
Matthew Fronk Harris, M.D.Dr. Harris is board certified from the American Board of Emergency Medicine and a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is happily married with 6 children, 3 of whom are triplets.
Brett Heath, M.D.Dr. Heath practices family medicine in Hamilton, Montana. He has 4 children. He is an avid fly fisherman, hunter and skier.
Brian Jackson, M.D.Dr. Jackson is a clinical pathologist at ARUP Laboratories in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Heather Major, M.D.Dr. Major is married to her medical school classmate, Scott Major, who practices otolaryngology in Ogden, Utah. Dr. Heather Major practices medicine at the Ogden Women's Center, and just won the James Scott Award, for being the community's outstanding OB/GYN. They have 3 children.
Holly Casey Wall, M.D.Dr. Wall practices plastic surgery for the Wall Center in Louisiana with her husband and father-in-law. She and her husband have 2 children.
1997
Kevin Gardner, M.D.Dr. Gardner is the medical director for Lifeline EMT training. He has been married for 20 years and is the father of two children. He currently resides in Layton, Utah.
Todd Harris, M.D.Dr. Harris lives in Idaho Falls, ID and practices anesthesiology at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center.
Anne M. Hutchinson, M.D.Dr. Hutchinson worked in private practice in Boston Massachusetts after her residency. In 2003 she joined a practice in South Ogden and she has recently accepted a faculty position at the McKay-Dee Family Medicine Residency Program. Her son, Gabriel, was born in May of 2006.
David C. Larsen, M.D.Dr. Larsen reports from Holladay, UT that he finally got married and is now the proud parents of three children. He practices family medicine at the Holladay Family Practice Clinic.
Kirk Leininger, M.D.Dr. Leininger practices medicine at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo. He has served as a medical volunteer for Healing Hands for Haiti and for the Deaf Olympics, hosted in Salt Lake City in 2007.
Jennifer Peters, M.D.Dr. Peters currently practices in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where she helped establish a successful hospitalist practice at a community hospital. Since it was started in 2000, the practice has grown from two practitioners to ten and they are still growing. She likes to spend time with her family sailing and driving around the coast of New England.
1998
Raphael Allred, M.D.
Dr. Allred opened her own clinic in 2007, which she says is scary and fun. She is married and they have one daughter, Ryan.
Carmen Arkansas Nations, M.D.
Dr. Nations moved home and is now a partner in a pediatrics group that serves the western counties of North Carolina and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian Reservation. She also serves on the board of directors for the Western North Carolina Down Syndrome Alliance. She is married with a 2-year-old daughter and two step daughters.
Trena Bonde, M.D.
Dr. Bonde is a practicing family medicine physician. She currently lives and works in Fort Harrison, Montana. Her practice is located at the VA Hospital, Fort Harrison.
Matthew Brown, M.D.
Dr. Brown has a family practice at the Intermountain Health Care North Orem Clinic. He is enjoying medicine and his happily married with three sons and three daughters.
Glenn S. Buchanan, M.D.
Dr. Buchanan is a practicing hematologist/oncologist at the Williamette Valley Cancer Center in Eugene, Oregon. He has three daughters and has run seven marathons.
Thomas Clark, M.D.
Dr. Clark served for eight years in the Navy including four deployments and three years as a flight surgeon, which he says was, "an excuse to not work quite as much and get paid to fly a jet." After working at the Instacare in Logan, Utah, Dr. Clark is now back to practicing family medicine. He and his wife, Tammie, have two children: Zyden, 12; and Emilia, 9. He still plays soccer and is on the ski patrol at Beaver Mountain.
Tara Cornaby, M.D.
Dr. Cornaby is a practicing anesthesiologist at Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, California. She serves as the anesthesia scheduler for Stanford's Ambulatory Surgery Center. She is also a clinical assistant professor anesthesia, an assistant residency director and a member of the Clinical Competency Committee, Resident Selection Committee and Education Committee at Stanford Hospital. Dr. Cornaby is married and has three sons.
Gina Cox, M.D.
Dr. Cox completed her family practice residency in Portland, Oregon in 2001. Afterward she joined the Foothill Family Clinic in Salt Lake City where she practices the full spectrum of family medicine, including obstetrics. She and her husband, Graeme, have been married for 12 years. They have a son, Rufus, who was born in 2007. In their spare time they like to snowboard, watch baseball, and watch Rufus grow and explore.
Simon Durcan, M.D.
Dr. Durcan is a practicing pediatric anesthesiologist working at Pediatric Anesthesiologists, Inc. in Salt Lake City. He completed his residency in anesthesiology in 2002, and a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship in 2003.
Kent Gardner, M.D.
After completing a fellowship in Head and Neck Surgery, Dr. Gardner moved to St. George, Utah to practice medicine and play a little golf. In 2007 he received the top score in the nation on the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Certification Exam. Amazingly, my wife Alyce is still married to me despite going through all of that. He has four great children: Jake, 13; Josh, 10; Katie, 6; and William 11 months.
Janet W. Grissom, M.D., PhD.
Dr. Grissom is a psychiatrist and acting medical director of North Valley Mental Health in Salt Lake City. She also practices at International Health Care Wasatch Center for Counseling and LDS Hospital. Dr. Grissom is a world-class Olympic pin collector and trader; she volunteered in doping control during the Salt Lake 2002 Games. She was invited by the International Olympic Committee to attend a World Olympic Collector Faire in Beijing in 2007. She and her husband, Chuck, have been married for 26 years and have a beautiful 9-year-old daughter, Cynthia.
Chris Jones, M.D.
Dr. Jones is a practicing internal medicine physician at Cottonwood Internal Medicine in Murray, Utah. His most significant achievement, he says, is that he has a happy life. He is also adjunct clinical faculty at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and he and his wife are pregnant with their fifth child.
Michael R. Martineau, M.D.
Dr. Martineau is a practicing dermatologist at Tanner Clinic in Layton, Utah. He completed his dermatology residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, where he served as chief resident. He also completed an internship at LDS Hospital. Dr. Martineau and his wife have five children and enjoy spending our time at Bear Lake, Lake Powell, Hawaii, and California. They have fun skiing, waterskiing and gardening.
Sarah Maulden, M.D.
Dr. Maulden finished her fellowship in Medical Informatics at the U of U in 2004 and is currently working part-time at the Salt Lake VA, doing a nice combination of informatics and seeing neurology patients. She says the best part of the past five years was the adoption of a daughter and son from Korea in 2005 and 2006. She reports they are energetic, loads of fun, and helps her see life through a new set of eyes.
Dan Parker, M.D.
Dr. Parker is a practicing radiologist with the Logan Radiology Group at Logan Region Hospital in Utah. After spending time in Dallas and Denver, Dr. Parkers says it was nice to come back to Utah. He lives in Logan and loves it. He and his wife have 5 daughters
R. Richard Rasmussen, M.D.
Dr. Rasmussen has a general surgery practice with Craig Cook, also from the class of 1998. Dr. Rasmussen enjoys laparoscopy. He and his wife have five children, ages 13 to 11/2.
Michael ‘Lee' Thorpe, M.D.
Dr. Thorpe completed his internship in the Navy and then was forward deployed oversees. He returned after three years to family practice, but soon discovered that his training had better developed him into an ER provider. He has been working for several emergency rooms in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska since 2003. Locum Tenens work fills in his need/enjoyment for travel. He has six children, five boys and one girl. He continues to practice/teach karate, shoot, ride motorcycles, read, and enjoy his life and lifestyle.
Audra Winder, M.D.
Dr. Winder completed her fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine in 2004. Her husband, Tom, is now five years cancer-free, following high-dose IL-2 for stage 3 renal cell carcinoma. Their daughter, Carly, is two and a half.
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Thomas Higginbotham, M.D.
Dr. Higginbotham is a practicing orthopedic surgeon at Canyon View Orthopedics in Logan, Utah. He completed a fellowship in sports medicine in 2005.
Gloria Jinglon Tong, M.D.
Dr. Tong is a practicing psychiatrist in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. After medical school, Dr. Tong finished her internship and a residency in adult psychiatry at the University of Utah. After a few years of general practice, Dr. Tong completed a fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. She is now board certified and practicing in rural Northern Minnesota. Dr. Tong has toured around the world, including Thailand, Taiwan, and Canada.
Karen M. Radley, M.D.
Dr. Radley is a practicing family medicine physician in Price, Utah. She does full spectrum family medicine including hospital duties. She has also opened a second business, A Better You Medical Spa. She has three children and they love being outdoors.
Chad McCormick, M.D.
Dr. McCormick is a practicing otolaryngologist at Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He has twin girls, born in 2006.
