Professional Leadership Acknowledgments
Nelson became involved with the administrative aspects of medicine and was elected president of the Utah State Medical Association. He was chair of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at LDS Hospital from 1967 to 1974 and director of the University of Utah Affiliated Hospital residency program in thoracic surgery from 1967 to 1984.
He was honored nationally by being elected president of the Society for Vascular Surgery and a director of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
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