Dr. John Nelson, MD, MPH

Dr. John C. Nelson is president emeritus of Globus Relief, a Utah-based non-profit organization that gathers, processes and distributes medical and other humanitarian supplies to charities serving the needy in the U.S. and abroad.

Dr. Nelson is a past president of the American Medical Association (AMA) and served on the AMA’s board of trustees for more than 10 years. He served on the National Advisory Committee for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and on the Medicaid Advisory Commission.

A retired board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Nelson was a diplomat of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Dr. Nelson is a former president of the Utah Medical Association and the Salt Lake County Medical Society. He is also a former deputy director of Utah’s Department of Health. Dr. Nelson served on the Utah governor’s task force on child abuse and neglect and teenage pregnancy prevention, and was a member of the Committee on Health Issues for the Utah Domestic Violence Advisory Committee and the Utah Health Advisory Board.

Born in Chicago, Dr. Nelson received his MD and MPH degrees from the University of Utah School of Medicine, and completed his residency at the University of Utah after an internship at Providence Hospital in Portland, Oregon.