Honoring our Distinguished Alumnus 2026 Scott D. Myhre, MD, MPH '79

The Wyoming School Foundation is proud to announce that Scott D. Myhre, MD, MPH (WHS Class of 1979) has been selected as the 2026 Distinguished Alumnus. He will be honored during Foundation Day at Wyoming High School on Monday, November 9th.

Scott grew up in Wyoming and graduated in the Class of 1979 as a scholar, athlete, musician, and thespian. He earned a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia where he was an Echols Scholar and lived on the Lawn, an MD from the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, and then completed a Family Medicine residency serving the poor at Chicago's Cook County Hospital. A Certificate in Biblical studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health enables Scott to take all he had received from the Wyoming community and re-invest it in marginalized places to enhance the potential of others.

In 1993, Scott joined a faith-based NGO called World Harvest Mission (now Serge) and was posted with his wife and infant son to Bundibugyo, Uganda, a remote border district. Infant and maternal mortality rates were unacceptably high, literacy and life expectancy were notoriously low, cross-border rebel warfare and dangerous epidemics were shockingly frequent. For 33 years, Scott and his team wove medical care and spiritual support into community - altering presence, making East Africa home. In spite of being caught in the crossfire or battle, and working thorough the first Ebola-Bundibugyo epidemic, he remained in the holistic labor of health, education, clean water, environmental protection, and literacy, to communicate the of God in the context of suffering.

In Uganda's Bundibugyo District Hospital, and later at Kijabe and Naivasha District Hospitals in Kenya, Scott worked as a Consultant Physician, providing direct care to patients while training nurses, medical students, interns and resident physicians. Believing in prevention as well as cure, Scott and his team created nutrition, community health and immunization outreaches, as well as epidemic control of measles, cholera, and ebola.

He was a USAID grant recipient creating the first Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Program for AIDS in Bundibugyo, testing 35,857 pregnant women in the first five years, and identifying 1,105 new HIV-infected mothers to be treated. This reduced infection risk in the babies from 30% to less than 10%. Scott's Serge career has culminated in being appointed as a member of the Executive Leadership Team, the Senior Director of Field Operations for the global organization which has over 300 workers in 29 countries.

Scott and his wife, Dr. Jennifer Myhre, have been bringing medical care, teaching, public health, Bible literacy, and spiritual support for 33 years. They have 4 adult children, Luke, Caleb, Julia and Jack, who are their greatest contribution to the world's good.