Dale G. Renlund

Who is Dale G. Renlund?

Dale Gunnar Renlund has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 2009.

Renlund was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Mats Ake Renlund and Mariana Andersson. Renlund's parents were from Sweden and had emigrated to the United States so they could marry in an LDS Church temple. For three years while he was a teenager, Renlund lived with his parents in Sweden where his father was a building missionary for the LDS Church.

From 1972 to 1974 Renlund returned to Sweden where he served as a full-time missionary for the LDS Church. He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry and a M.D., both from the University of Utah. He then went on to do a six-year residency program at Johns Hopkins University.

In 1986, Renlund became a professor at the University of Utah. From 1991 to 2009, he was the medical director of the Utah Transplantation Affiliated Hospitals Cardiac Transplant Program. In 2000, he also became director of the Heart Failure Prevention and Treatment Program at Intermountain Health Center in Salt Lake City.

Renlund is married to Ruth Lybbert, a daughter of Merlin R. Lybbert, who was a general authority of the LDS Church. The Renlunds are the parents of one daughter. Ruth Renlund was a partner of the law firm of Dewsnup, King & Olsen.