Sam Brown

TUES, DEC 6, 2022   |  7:30-9:00 pm MST

How does the birth of Jesus inform death? Especially when it involves the death of a beloved.

IN-PERSON GATHERING:

THE CONVERSATION:

Death is a part of life, just as Christmas contains the specter of Good Friday. What to do with that fact is an often painful and usually strenuous puzzle. Sam will explore—from his vantage as an ICU physician, religious historian, and fresh widow—the facets and thickets of grief.

ABOUT SAM:

Samuel Brown, MD, MS graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in Linguistics with a minor in Russian, then received his MD from Harvard Medical School. He completed internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and pulmonary/critical care fellowship at the University of Utah. He is now Research Professor at Intermountain Health and Professor of Medicine at University of Utah School of Medicine. He treats patients in the Shock Trauma ICU at Intermountain Medical Center.

Sam’s scientific work focuses on understanding patients with life-threatening infections, with special emphasis on the design and performance of clinical trials in sepsis and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. He has published more than 250 articles and 7 books in medicine, history, and religion. His beloved wife, Kate Holbrook, a renowned historian of and advocate for Latter-Day Saint women, died in late August 2022, after almost 5 years of a rich and frightening life with metastatic ocular melanoma.

EXPLORE BEFORE WE MEET:

• Why Kate Holbrook Matters—and Always Will
• A Grief Observed: CS Lewis
• 2020 FaithAgain with Sam and Kate: Coronavirus, Good Friday, and Hearing Christ
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