Anthony Vuturo, M.D., M.P.H., SBS Advisory Board and Magellan Circle Member.
Loving the Notion of Exploration
“I have always had an interest in the breadth of issues that SBS covers,” says Dr. Anthony Vuturo, a prominent local physician. This fascination with several areas of research, as well as Dr. Vuturo’s extensive management and operational experience, make him an invaluable member of our SBS board.
Since 1996, Dr. Vuturo has served as senior vice president of Canyon Ranch Health Resorts. Previously, he worked at The University of Arizona in the College of Medicine and was associate dean of Health Affairs and head of the Department of Family and Community Medicine.
In his position at Canyon Ranch, where his responsibilities include philanthropy oversight, Dr. Vuturo helped SBS obtain the largest corporate gift in its history — $300,000 to the psychology department.
This gift to psychology went toward the study of energy and healing touch. “At Canyon Ranch, which focuses on health and wellness, we try to identify a wide range of techniques used all over the world, and to make them available to guests who come to Canyon Ranch for a better way to live,” says Dr. Vuturo.
Dr. Vuturo’s personal passion for international issues, an interest which began in his childhood, is also a good fit with the research of SBS. Raised by his Italian father and Lebanese mother in a diverse neighborhood in Kentucky, Dr. Vuturo was exposed to a variety of cultures, especially when helping his mother cater events. “Catering a wedding or first communion or bar mitzvah, you start to understand the cultures and how people live.”
Dr. Vuturo went on to do extensive medical work all over the world, establishing and administering health projects in more than 20 countries, including China, Mexico and Saudi Arabia.
He and his wife, Joan, believe students should study abroad, learn other languages and experience other cultures. One of the reasons he enjoys their membership in Magellan Circle is that he “loves the notion of Magellan and exploration.”
“This whole idea of globalization means that if you are not mixing it up in the world, you are not going to be able to participate fully,” says Dr. Vuturo. “I believe SBS is about training a new generation of citizens of the world — world citizens who work and live comfortably outside of the United States and share the values of our country wherever he/she may be.”
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