New Executive Director: Scott Muir

In July Scott Muir assumed the directorship of the Utah Hemophilia Foundation. Mr. Muir’s selection by the Foundation’s Board of Directors followed a two-month search for a new executive director. Mr. Muir brings to his position with the UHF a varied professional background of more than twenty years of experience encompassing public, nonprofit, and private sector management, corporate communications, marketing, public relations, media relations, and community and governmental relations. Before coming to the UHF, he was the director of a large natural history and paleontology museum and nature park, a consultant to the Gale Center of History and Culture in South Jordan, the director of Marketing and Communication for an aerospace company, and the director of Economic Development for a northern Utah county. Additionally, Scott is no stranger to the non-profit world, having held administrative positions with a variety of non-profit agencies in the social services field during an eight-year period.

A Utah native and graduate of the University of Utah, Scott is also an accomplished filmmaker, having produced documentaries and a feature film still in national and international distribution. As the Director of the UHF, Mr. Muir will focus on taking the Foundation to the next level of professionalism, programming, and prominence in advancing the Foundation’s mission of empowering those with bleeding disorders to lead healthier and more self-sufficient lives. Scott also feels strongly that the primary function of the Foundation should be advocacy that promotes unity of purpose and unity of effort in delineating and meeting the needs peculiar to Utah’s bleeding disorders community. Mr. Muir both welcomes and invites constructive feedback concerning the Foundation’s widely ranging programs of education and support.