Dr. Kozisek was recently honored by St. Luke’s Health System as he retired from the Palliative and Supportive Care department this month. With a medical career spanning 36 years. He attended Creighton University and finished his residency at the University of Wyoming Family Practice program in Cheyenne, where he subsequently taught as an assistant professor.

He relocated to Boise in 1996 to join the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho as its assistant director and oversaw rural medicine training for several years. In 2008, he left to join St. Luke's to help lead the development of its Palliative & Supportive Care department. He leaves behind a solid team environment which he helped build. A couple of his quotable lines of physician wisdom include: “Listen more than you talk” and “There is no difficult patient: they are in difficulty.”