Member of the Month – November: Johnnie Cook

Practice: I worked for Intermountain Health at their Layton location from 1994-2014, and worked with the McKay Dee Family practice residency those years, delivered over 1000 babies, did some surgeries ie: ear tubes, tonsillectomies, etc and helped train over 120 family physicians. In 2015 I switched to Tanner clinic at their Layton Parkway location, quit delivering babies and have found sleeping at night to be a grand hobby!

Any fellowships or additional training? Received my Fellowship of the American Academy of Family Physicians in Philadelphia in 2012. Currently serving as the President of the Weber County Medical Society and was Doctor of the Year for WCMS in 2022.

Residency: McKay Dee Family Practice Residency, Ogden

A bit about Dr. Cook:
I was born in Provo, Utah the month after my dad (from Roosevelt, Utah, my mom was from Brigham City) graduated from BYU with a degree in chemical engineering. I grew up in southeast Texas where my dad’s job took him, then came back to BYU for premed, then attended St. Louis University and the University of Utah for medical school. I am the 2nd of 11 children, 4 girls and 7 boys and oldest son. One small claim to fame is that all of my 6 brothers and I received our Eagle Scout awards, a feat I entitled “Seven Birds for Seven Brothers”. My wife, Maureen (former NICU nurse) and I have 5 children ( the oldest is an anesthesiologist in Nashville, TN; the youngest is a Labor and Delivery RN in Brigham City and her hubby is starting med school 8/2026 planning to be a pediatrician unless I can help persuade him to head toward the ‘only noble profession’ as Dr. George Snell, my mentor and director of my residency program informed me ie: that of family medicine) and 9 grandchildren. I love serving and get to volunteer at 2 Free Clinics (the Seager Memorial Clinic in Ogden where my wife and I serve monthly and I also serve as the chairman of the board, and the Davis Volunteer Medical Clinic where I serve as the director and volunteer monthly). I enjoy my involvement in Collegium Aesculapium, a group of LDS physicians where Elder Weatherford Clayton, an emeritus general authority recently finished as the president, a position I served in 2010. I enjoy singing in choirs and playing with grandkids!

What do you wish you’d known when you graduated from medical school? I wish the Physician Wealth Advisers group (formerly Utah Medical Association Financial Services) and The White Coat Investor book and podcast/email had been started back then; made some financial blunders like buying whole life, etc that could have been avoided. And I wish I’d have known that after those busy medical school and residency years that life as a practicing family physician would be so wonderful!! Being involved in so many exceptional people’s lives and serving them and getting to know them well has been a great joy!

What keeps you passionate about family medicine? Teaching and mentoring medical students, premedical students and residents. I currently serve as the Regional Medical Director for Northern Utah for the Noorda Osteopathic School of Medicine in Provo helping line up 3rd and 4th year rotations in Davis and Weber counties. Being involved in these budding physicians lives and helping bless and mold these growing minds has been a privilege and lots of fun.

Where will we find you on your day off? Pickleball, basketball, golf, hiking, working in the yard, reading, playing with grandkids, serving as a temple worker at the Layton Temple or trying to win the pleasure and smiles of my angelic, gorgeous wife by helping with her projects, the housework, etc.

What are you…
reading right now: After All We Can Do by Dieter F. Uchtdorf
watching right now: Whatever my grandkids like; this week it was Matilda and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
listening to right now: General Conference