CECIL O. SAMUELSON

'Cecil Osborn Samuelson, Jr.' (b. August 1, 1941) has been the 12th president of Brigham Young University since May 1, 2003. Prior to this appointment he had been a professor of medicine at the University of Utah, dean of the school of medicine there, and vice president of health services.
Samuelson's full-time service to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began in 1994 when he was made a General Authority and appointed to the First Quorum of the Seventy. He has also served as as Area President, as one of the seven presidents of the Seventy and as the general president of the church's Sunday School organization.
President Samuelson began his administration as President of BYU with a call for the faculty to "raise the bar" in their expectations of students. He also inititated a revamping of Student Housing to allow it to better agment the goals of the university.
He holds a bachelors, a master's degree, and a M.D. from the University of Utah & served his residency at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.

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"News of the Church: Elder Cecil O. Samuelson, Jr...," ''Ensign'', Nov. 1994

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★ BYU bio of Samuelson