BY KAREN BOSSICK

Two new board members have been elected to the board of the St. Luke’s Wood River Foundation.

Dr. Autumn Loomis and Julie Wrigley will join Foundation board members Pete Smith, Delvin Ash, McNair Bailey, Roger Gould, E. Carlton Wilton, Dr. Frank Batcha, Barbara Wallace Boswell, Megan Edwards, Jeff Foushee, Betsy Gates, Dr. Matt Kopplin, Becky Lopez, John Monson, Cynthia Murphy, Dr. Deb Robertson and Tom Tierney.

Dr. Autumn Loomis was born and raised in the Wood River Valley where she graduated from Wood River High School. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Microbiology from the University of Michigan, then headed south to medical school in San Antonio, Texas.

Dr. Autumn Loomis served her residency at University of Lousville Affiliated Hospitals.

She spent time working in New Zealand and Boston, then headed back to her hometown in 2022 where she now works in St. Luke’s Wood River Emergency Department while continuing her interest in Wilderness Medicine, Teaching and Academics and pre-Hospital/Emergency Services.

Loomis says she was inspired to practice medicine after seeing the impact of untreated diseases while traveling.

“Although I enjoyed all my rotations in medical school, I quickly realized that emergency medicine allows us to care for everyone and address anything that comes our way,” she says.

Julie Wrigley has been a familiar face at the Sun Valley Forum every year where she shares how to use philanthropy to address climate change issues.

President and CEO of Wrigley Investments, in Ketchum, she co-founded the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. It houses the first degree-granting School of Sustainability in the United States, named the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory.

Wrigley focuses much of her philanthropic work on healthcare, environmental sustainability and education, following the guiding principle of the United Nations Brundtland Commission--“meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

A graduate of Stanford University and the University of Denver Law School, she has had a home in the Wood River Valley since 1981.

“We are grateful to welcome board members of this caliber, who are deeply passionate about our Foundation’s mission to support world-class care in the Wood River Valley,” said Megan Tanous, Chief Development Officer for the St. Luke’s Wood River Foundation.