L. William Lauro, M.D., is a board-certified family practice physician in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Lauro graduated magna cum laude from the University of Utah in 1976 with a degree in medical biology. He then attended the University of Miami School of Medicine and received his medical degree in 1980. Dr. Lauro then completed a three-year residency in Family Medicine at the University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals. Dr. Lauro opened his practice in Murray, Utah (a suburb of Salt Lake City) in 1983. He was Chairman of the Department of Family Medline at Cottonwood Hospital in 1988. He practiced family medicine for 17 years until he was forced to retire because of back problems. Since his retirement Dr. Lauro has taught in the nursing program at a local community college and currently teaches the Gospel Doctrine class in his ward in Salt Lake City.Dr. Lauro was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1956 and moved to Pompano Beach, Florida with his family in 1959. His family then moved to Utah in 1970 where Dr. Lauro joined the Church at age 14. He married Melissa Cannon in 1980 and they have five children, three boys and two girls.
