Gregory Gochnour, MD, FAAFP, an Ogden family physician, has been honored with the Utah Family Medicine Physician of the Year Award. The award is from the Utah Academy of Family Physicians, the Utah Chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians. The award recognizes a physician who provides compassionate, comprehensive, and caring family medicine on a continuing basis, as well as commitment to the community, to other health professionals, and to residents and medical students.
Dr. Gochnour is a Salt Lake City native who attended the University of Utah, completed a family medicine residency in Duluth, Minnesota, and has worked in rural hospital settings in Southern Utah and all over the world. He joined the faculty of the McKay-Dee Family Medicine Residency Program in 1999. In 2001, he completed a faculty development fellowship at the University of Washington. He is the program director at the McKay-Dee Family Medicine Residency Program. During his tenure with the residency, he and the other faculty have overseen the training of 100 residents who are contributing to communities all over the U.S.
Dr. Gochnour is passionate about practicing full-spectrum family medicine—he provides obstetrical care and loves to follow these newborns through their childhood years. Some of his favorite patients are the ones in their 90s whom he has cared for over the past 18 years. He also enjoys being involved in the Ogden community and assisting the underserved populations. He is the medical director for the Weber-Morgan Health Department, overseeing the Tuberculosis Clinic and the Immigration Clinic.
In addition, he helps staff the Intermountain Snowbasin Clinic and volunteers in the Seager Clinic at the Ogden Rescue Mission. He has also served on several community boards. His humanitarian work has taken him all over the world. He participated in a year-long healthcare project in Nigeria while taking a year off from college. Later during medical school, he served in a small rural Jamaican hospital. Eventually he returned to Africa with his family for a five-week humanitarian stint in a rural Malawi mission hospital.
Dr. Gochnour is married to Caitlin Kenny and has college-age twin sons and a daughter. In his free time, he serves in his faith organization, telemark skis, hikes, plays hockey, paints, and gardens.
