Richard R. Orlandi

J. Fredrik Grimmer, MD is a Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Utah and Primary Children’s Hospital. He is board certified in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Complex Pediatric Otolaryngology. His clinical interest are in pediatric head and neck surgery including fetal airway surgery, endocrine surgery, maxillofacial boney tumors, surgical access to the skull base and surgery of vascular anomalies. His research interests include identifying the genetic etiology of vascular anomalies, investigating the role of HPV in pediatric thyroid cancer, developing minimally invasive approaches to the skull base and understanding the predictive value of cytogenic testing in pediatric thyroid cancer. He founded the Vascular Anomalies Center and co-founded and is the Surgical Director of the Pediatric Thyroid Center at Primary Children's Hospital.

Dr. Finlayson's clinical specialty is minimally invasive abdominal surgery. His primary areas of clinical practice are colon surgery, including colon cancer, colon polyps, diverticulitis, and other conditions of the colon; abdominal wall hernias, including ventral, incisional, inguinal and femoral hernias; and gallbladder and gallstone disease.

Benjamin S. Brooke, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Surgery, Biomedical Informatics (adjunct), Population Health Sciences (adjunct), and Chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery. He grew up in Salt Lake City, receiving his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Utah before heading east to complete his internship and residency in General Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. During his surgical residency, Dr. Brooke received his Ph.D. in Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He then completed a fellowship in Vascular Surgery at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Dr. Brooke has a broad clinical practice focused on the open and endovascular treatment of aortic, visceral, carotid, and lower extremity arterial disease. He also provides dialysis vascular access, surgical treatment for thoracic outlet syndrome, and both open and catheter-based treatment of lower extremity venous insufficiency. In addition to clinical responsibilities, Dr. Brooke also leads surgical health services research efforts in the University of Utah’s Department of Surgery, serving as section chief of the Health Services Research Section and director of the Utah Intervention Quality and Implementation Research (U-INQUIRE) group. His research is focused on models to improve care coordination for surgical patients during transitions of care by leveraging health information technology (HIT), implementation science, as well as population health analytics. Dr. Brooke’s work has been funded by grants from PCORI, the National Institutes of Health, the VA, and the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT.