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Show REX HEAD ( 42 If we were to hand out prizes for the most miles traveled, the most exotic place visited, and the person who spent the most time away from the University, Rex would obviously win them all. From Florida to the islands of Alaska, and from Italy to the deepest parts of the Ecuadorian jungle, Rex has seen them all. Rex is an Idaho native that graduated from BYU, (sorry), Magnum Cum Laude in three years. While there, he studied porcupines and pre-med students, (fairly similar creatures if I do say so myself), and tutored math, physics, biology and chemistry. Now, lest one thinks Rex is all brain and no brawn, he was also an intramural basketball champion and worked on the Alaskan pipeline. For the first two years of Medical School, Rex remained well hidden in Dr. Harris' office compiling surveys or in the arms of his soon to be wife. Of course he managed to play a bit of basketball from time to time. He has since returned to his natural self. He was elected our OSR delegate to AAMC and carried his work over to the U's Accreditation Self Study Task Force. He received a Smith Kline Beckman Fellowship and was sponsored to study the St. Lawrence Island Eskimos. He was also a member of The John's Hopkins Medical Expedition Team where he spent a month in the Ecuadorian jungle to do a health survey of the Cayapas Indians. He was instrumental in starting, (and continues to be coeditor), of our medical school bulletin "Making Rounds". Rex tops off his medical school career this year by being a Family Practice honors student and president of the Family Practice Honors Club. Rex comes from a family of several physicians. He will no doubt improve upon his family name and carry proudly the banner of the University of Utah wherever the Air Force and his future takes him. |
