F. Wayne Vaught, Ph.D.

Prior to his appointment as interim president, Vaught served as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, a position he has held since June 2019. Prior to coming to UVU, Vaught was an assistant professor of community and preventive medicine at Allegheny University of the Health Sciences (1995-1998) (now Drexel College of Medicine). He spent most of his career (1998-2019) at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he began as an assistant professor of philosophy and medicine, holding a joint appointment between the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine. He taught medical ethics in addition to courses in philosophy. He served in a number of leadership roles including department chair, associate dean and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

His scholarship focuses on medical ethics and he has published articles in several leading bioethics journals, including the Hasting Center Report, the Journal of Clinical Ethics, and Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. He has also co-author two anthologies with his colleague and friend Clancy Martin: Ethics Across the Professions (Oxford University Press 3rd Edition 2024) and Morality and The Good Life (McGraw Hill, 2009).