Dr. Robert T. Winn is the long-serving medical director for the Deer Valley and Park City resorts in Utah. In this capacity, he administrates and sets policy for the on-mountain clinics that care for thousands of guests from around the world each year. For over twenty years, he also served as the medical director at the Old Faithful Clinic in Yellowstone National Park, the world’s first national park, created in 1872.
In 2002, when Park City hosted the Winter Olympics, Deer Valley designated Dr. Winn its venue medical director in charge of all medical care for both athletes and spectators. Previously, in 1985, Dr. Winn acted as the overall medical director when Park City was the venue for the International Winter Special Olympic games.
Today Dr. Winn remains a long-term resident of Park City, Utah, and is also the cofounder of a large and diverse primary care practice that has grown to seventeen dedicated providers. He was born and raised in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, and completed his undergraduate studies at Pennsylvania State University, where he was a member of the Blue Key Honor Society and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
Dr. Winn attended the Milton S. Hershey Medical School at Pennsylvania State University. While at Hershey, he received a foreign studies scholarship during his senior year to study in the rural town of Garkida, Nigeria. When he graduated medical school, he received the Gilbert S. Nurich award for scholastic excellence.
After discovering and falling in love with the mountains of the western United States, Dr. Winn chose to do his pediatric residency at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. His first job was as a solo physician at the Mammoth Clinic in Yellowstone National Park, where he met his wife, Nancy, to whom he has been married and deeply in love with for many years. He and Nancy have two children, Jayna and Jaret.
Dr. Winn remains very involved in the Park City local community and, at various times, has served several terms as president of the Summit County Health Board, as well as being a member of the Emergency Medical Services Council and a charter member of the Park City Educational Foundation Board. In his early years, he was the ambulance medical director when the ambulance service was all volunteers. Over the decades, Dr. Winn and his partners have provided medical assistance to the Sundance Film Festival, the Park City Ride and Tie, and the Autumn Aloft Balloon Festival. Dr. Winn’s medical group has also served almost every local high school sports team and he has consistently and continuously participated in various school events, acting as chairman of groups such as Reality Town, Community of Caring, Great Books, and father-son events.
Dr. Winn was one of the founding members and early volunteers that helped staff the People’s Health Center after Park City identified the need for a nonprofit health clinic for the uninsured and underinsured. When Park City was chosen as a finalist in the “All American City” national competition, Dr. Winn was sent to Cleveland by city leaders as a delegate for the final presentation. With a long-term commitment to community service, Dr. Winn has served as chairman of the “Children at Risk” committee that supervised the Park City Rotary Club’s philanthropic activities with young people, in addition to many school and community activities.
Dr. Winn has received numerous accolades and public recognition for his work with park rangers, volunteer and professional ski patrollers, medical and nursing students, and medical residents from several different specialties and hospitals. He continues to enjoy showing students how to provide medical care like an “old-time country doctor.” He treats his patients as family and knows them on a first-name basis, just as they know him by his nickname, “Winnie.”
Dr. Winn’s writing career is a direct outgrowth of his many years as a “teacher.”
Timothy R. Pearson is the author of the number-one international and New York Times best seller The Old Rules Are Dead; president and CEO of The Thomas L. Pearson and The Pearson Family Members Foundation, the philanthropic intermediary of the Pearson Family that conceived and established The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy Studies in September 2015; and founder, president, and CEO of Pearson Advisors || Partners.
Pearson previously served as vice chairman, global managing partner, and first-ever chief marketing and communications officer for KPMG, the global Big Four accounting, tax, and consulting firm. He also was president and CEO of a leading international marketing and management consulting firm and, earlier in his career, he was president of several advertising agencies, where he led award-winning initiatives for leading global companies. He has received numerous global and national marketing honors and multiple awards, including Advertising Age’s Best, Belding, Cable, Clio, Echo, Golden Phone, Lulu, Proto, PRSA Sunny, and the Wall Street Journal’s Best.
He is also active with numerous civic and charitable organizations. In 2012 and 2013, he and his brothers Tom, Phil, and David were the first global benefactors of the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, through The Thomas L. Pearson and The Pearson Family Members Fund. He has served on the Nobel Peace Center’s advisory board and as a member of the Harvard Business School’s Dean’s Research Society.
Mr. Pearson graduated cum laude with a BA degree in English literature from DePauw University, where he was a Maxwell Scholar and president of Gold Key, the men’s senior honorary society. He resides in Saddle River, New Jersey; Atlanta, Georgia; or Park City, Utah—depending on the temperature, the humidity, and the season.