LDS Hospital

He returned to Utah for a rheumatology fellowship and completed that in 1981.

He began a consultative rheumatology practice at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City and established Utah's first pediatric rheumatology clinic at Primary Children's Hospital.

After two decades, he moved to Boise, Idaho, where he joined Intermountain Orthopedics in St. Luke's Hospital system and became the medical director of pediatric rheumatology at Idaho's only children's hospital.

He also held a clinical faculty position at Seattle Children's Hospital for six years from 2002 to 2008, and medical director of non-oncology infusion services for Salt Lake Hospital system until his retirement in August of '25.

I see in my mind's eye those early Relief Society saints passing their torch to the BYU School of Medicine in the 21st century.

We are preparing for the time when we can open our doors seeking the spiritual granddaughters and grandsons, spiritual nieces and nephews of the unnamed donors in India and the Philippines who helped build LDS Hospital.

We hope they will enter to learn and go forth in scrubs, white coats, or fleece jackets to fight the fires of mortality all over the world.

Some of you are likewise working with your might, mind, and strength to go forth and serve in demanding careers and in your relationships.