

Throughout his career, he has studied the system design literature, consulted with numerous experts in the field, and obtained formal training in Lean management systems and primary care design. He has experienced the many deficiencies of our current system and has long wanted to redesign the care process. Doug has been interested in medical system design since the beginning of his training. He worked there almost five years before deciding to start his own practice in Arizona.

It was there that their third child was born. They then moved to Logan, Utah, and Doug started work at Intermountain Healthcare's Budge Clinic-a multi-specialty group practice. He worked there for 3 years, gaining valuable experience caring for patients in both the clinic and hospital. Upon completion of his medical residency, Doug and Tiffany moved their family to Roosevelt, Utah, taking a position with Uintah Basin Medical Center. He was in the Primary Care Track, obtaining special training in the team-based care model. After graduation, they moved to Portland, Oregon, where Doug did his Internal Medicine residency training at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). They evacuated the hurricane and went to Salt Lake City where they had their second child and finished medical school. They had their first child there and also experienced Hurricane Katrina. He graduated from BYU in 2002 and they moved to New Orleans to attend medical school at Tulane University. During that time he met and married Tiffany. After returning, he studied philosophy at Brigham Young University in preparation for medical school. He graduated from Mountain View High School in 1993, then spent one year studying at the University of Utah before leaving to serve a church mission in Finland.
