Samuel Morris Brown

Samuel M. Brown, MD MS is Assistant Professor of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine and Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Attending Physician in the Shock Trauma ICU at Intermountain Medical Center. He majored in linguistics with a minor in Russian at Harvard College and then obtained his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. His primary focus is clinical research to understand variations in patients’ responses to life-threatening infection, and on weekends he writes history of culture and religion. He is the author of In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death, which won the Mormon History Association Best First Book Award. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, who is a religious historian, and their young children. He is currently counselor to the elders quorum president and home teacher to two fine families in his ward. He and his family like to read, garden, and cook.