Biography
Sister Emily Meidell comes to Brigham Yong Univeristy-Hawaii as a missionary called to provide support to the pregnant BYU-H students in cooperation with the Student Health Center. Emily received her first BS degree from Brigham Young University-Provo in 1993, and she has a second BS and Doctorate degree from the University of Utah. She has been in clinical practice for the last 15 years in Utah, and she has cared for thousands of women and delivered thousands of babies.
In addition, she runs a humanitarian organization in Africa that aims to empower and support the well-being and education of girls and women, and she has been an adjunct professor at the University of Utah for the last 10 years.
Elder and Sister Meidell are the parents of 7 children and 15 grandchildren, and one very spoiled empty-nester Labradoodle named Tulip.