A Provo, Utah native, Sherman C. Smith was a Hinkley Scholar at Brigham Young University. He completed his undergraduate work in 1972 with high honors and graduated summa cum laude. He earned a U.S. Army Health Professions Scholarship and again graduated with honors from the University of Utah Medical School in 1976. From 1976 to 1981, Dr. Smith served his internship and residency at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center. He is a retired Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves. He served his Country as a surgeon in Operation Desert Storm.

Dr. Smith is Board Certified in General Surgery.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the Southwest Surgical Society, a member of the American Medical Association, the Salt Lake Surgical Society and the Utah State Medical Association. He has served as president of the Salt Lake Surgical Society and was an assistant clinical professor of surgery at the University of Utah from 1987 to 1992. He is on staff at St. Mark’s and LDS hospitals.

Dr. Simper’s expertise and passion are in performing minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery. His first bariatric procedures were in 1984 at Wilford Hall Medical Center, in Texas.

He joined Rocky Mountain Associated Physicians in 2001, at the time in which laparoscopic bariatric surgery was in its infancy. Over the years, with continuing education and preceptorships he has added the lap-band, laparoscopic duodenal switch, and revisional bariatric surgery to his repertoire.

He was a presenter at the 2006 and 2007 National Bariatric meetings (ASMBS), and is active in publishing papers and furthering knowledge as to the surgical treatment of obesity.

His education, training and qualifications include:

• American Board of Surgery – Board Certified General Surgery
• American Board of Surgery – Board Certified Vascular Surgery
• Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society – University of Utah (BS Biology)
• University of Utah School of Medicine – Top 10% of Class – ROTC Air Force Scholarship
• General Surgery Residency – Wilford Hall Medical Center – USAF San Antonio, TX
• Top Surgical Intern
• Non-Cardiac Thoracic and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship – Biloxi VA Hospital, MS
• Compassionate Physician of the Year 1988
• Vascular Surgery Fellowship – Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA (1992-1993)
• Staff Surgeon – Incirlik, Turkey – USAF (1987-1988)
• Chief of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Scott AFB, IL (1989-1992)
• American Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery – Member

Dr. McKinlay graduated summa cum laude from Brigham Young University in 1993 and then received his medical degree from the University of Utah in 1997, where he graduated with honors in medicine and surgery. After completing General Surgery residency at the University of Arizona, he began a minimally invasive surgery (MIS) fellowship at the University of Kentucky, focusing on research in MIS. He concluded the clinical portion of the fellowship at the University of Maryland.

Dr. McKinlay is Board Certified in General Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In addition to striving for top-quality surgical care using the latest technology, Dr. McKinlay emphasizes treating the whole patient with respect and attention to detail. Seeing the change that can occur in a patient's life after weight loss or other surgery is what he enjoys most about caring for patients.