Francis A. Madsen
AMICUS Hall of
Honor Member/Heritage Society
Frank
was born on January 6, 1931 at LDS Hospital. He doesn’t remember the event, but
is willing to take his mother’s word for it. For six years 
he lived across the
street from Ogden High School while it was under construction. The brick piles
were his playground.
He returned to Salt Lake City when he was six years old. Frank attended
Longfellow Elementary School (long gone), Bryant Junior High School and East
High School where he played football, basketball (thus his two total knee
replacements) and ran track. Frank graduated in 1948 as the valedictorian of
his graduating class.
Frank immediately entered the University of Utah and almost completed his
undergraduate degree before serving an LDS mission to Ontario Canada. Upon his
return he entered law school, completed his undergraduate degree and entered
the Air Force ROTC program.
He completed his undergraduate degree in 1954, completed law
school in 1955 (entering the Utah State Bar in 1955) and received an MBA in
1956 along with a commission in the Air Force. During all of this time, He
worked in his family’s business, Madsen Furniture Company.
After finishing school, Frank was ordered to Francis E. Warren Air Force Base,
where he served three years as Assistant Staff Judge Advocate. Upon returning
to Salt Lake in 1959 Frank participated in various family owned businesses
while practicing corporate law.
In 1976 Frank accepted Senator Orrin Hatch’s offer to be his chief of staff in
Washington D.C. He acted in this capacity for eight years and then became Chief
Counsel of the United States Senate’s Labor and Human Resources Committee for
another four years.
In 1988 Frank and his wife Constance were called to serve as the LDS mission
president in Boston. Frank had previously served as bishop of three different
LDS wards and a member of a stake presidency. Frank and Constance then returned
to their home in Virginia and he then served as a Regional Representative in
Cleveland, Ohio and New York. While living in Virginia he served on the
Washington D.C. based public affairs Advisory Committee and the Foreign Affairs
Advisory Committee for the LDS Church. He negotiated with the communist
government of Hungary and other Eastern European nations to obtain legal status
for the LDS church in those countries. Before returning to Salt Lake in 1995 he
had obtained the desired status in most of Eastern Europe and then Russia.
Upon returning to Salt Lake Frank served on a number of boards for charitable
institutions. He was invited by David Wirthlin to serve on The Heart and Lung
Research Foundation Board. Frank was then invited to serve on Intermountain
Research & Medical Foundation Board for nine years with the assignment of
working with The Heart and Lung Board and their Legacy of Life program while
also helping to raise funds for the new Intermountain Medical Center. Upon
completion of his Intermountain Research & Medical Foundation term he has
continued to work with Legacy of Life having chaired the last two events.
Intermountain Research & Medical Foundation expresses our deepest gratitude
to Frank for his ongoing service and dedication.
Dr. Todd Allen
AMICUS Lifetime
Member
Dr. Allen grew up in
Bountiful, UT and pursued a degree in chemistry at the University of Utah
before entering the medical program in 1991. Upon 
graduation, he served his
residency in emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, where an
appreciation for academic emergency medicine and the spirit of inquiry was
formed.
Following his residency, Dr. Allen completed a fellowship in academic emergency
medicine at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the University of Sydney in
Australia. While there, he came across a job opportunity with the Department of
Emergency Medicine and Trauma Services at LDS Hospital and a chance to return
home.
Dr. Allen’s interests lie in clinical trauma research, academic
emergency medicine, and bringing the techniques and ideas of the Pulmonary and
Critical Care research, particularly the techniques of computerized bedside
decision support to real-time operation in the emergency departments of both
Intermountain Medical Center and LDS Hospital.
Dr. Allen led a research project at Intermountain Medical Center and at LDS
Hospital that shows both hospitals greatly reduced the number of sepsis-related
deaths. “We have saved about 50 to 70 lives per year at those two
institutions," he says.
Over the past several years, Dr. Allen has received funding from Intermountain
Research & Medical Foundation for research projects that have received
local and national attention. He is currently the Vice-Chair of Intermountain
Research & Medical Foundation’s Research Committee.
Dr. Allen has been a generous donor and has reached the Lifetime level.
Intermountain Research & Medical Foundation expresses our deepest gratitude
to Dr. Todd Allen for his continuing support to the Foundation and his
dedication to the Science of Medicine, the Spirit of Caring and the Miracle of
Healing.
Luella Finlinson
AMICUS
Pacesetter Member
Being the youngest child,
Luella became familiar with serving the community by the example her mother,
Rena D. Wheeler who was one of the three 
founding women of the Cottonwood
Maternity Hospital located in Murray, Utah. Rena Wheeler, Mary S. Cornwall and
Amanda N. Bagley started a small maternity hospital in December 1924 known as
the Cottonwood Maternity Hospital. Always trying to do for others, these women
would travel from Murray to Granger and Hunter via horse & carriage to
visit young mothers and their children. Luella would travel with her mother and
was known as “Mothers little Relief Society girl.”
Traveling into Salt Lake City was a trek for most of the people
who lived in Murray. Luella would watch her mother make burial clothing so the
people of Murray would not have to travel into the city to make such a purchase
for their deceased loved ones. She would also be by her mother’s side when the
Murray Baby Clinic was opened.
In 1963 the new Cottonwood L.D.S Hospital, a major medical facility, was
dedicated and opened its doors as an acute general community hospital. With the
opening of the new hospital, the Cottonwood Maternity Hospital closed and moved
its new patients into the facility. The new hospital formed a governing board
and asked Luella to serve on the board.
Luella acquainted herself even more so by serving as a Ward Relief Society
president, Stake Relief Society president and then a member of the General
Relief Society board. She loved singing in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir because
it gave joy to those who heard the choir sing. As a Board member of the new
Cottonwood L.D.S Hospital, she worked diligently to raise funds for the
hospital’s special needs and equipment.
In 1975, recognizing that the South Salt Lake Valley was growing at a rapid
rate, Luella was given the charge to help raise capital funds for a new
facility, which would later be known as Alta View Hospital, and she did this by
recruiting new members with great ease.
For nearly 47 years, Luella has served in various volunteer roles with
Intermountain Research & Medical Foundation and Amicus. She is a regular
attendee at the Foundation’s events and activities. Luella has also been a
generous donor and has reached the Pacesetter level. Intermountain Research
& Medical Foundation expresses our deepest gratitude to Luella for her
ongoing service and dedication.