Jay D. Clark, M.D. was born in Los Angeles, California in 1946. There, he attended military school through junior high before completing high school and a year of college in Washington state. From 1965 to 1968, Jay served a full-time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Brazilian South Mission. He then attended Brigham Young University where he met Pat Hoge. They were married in 1968 and graduated together from BYU in 1970. Together they have six children and twenty-three grandchildren. Jay attended medical school in Guadalajara, Mexico where he received his M.D. degree in 1974. Following his residency in Cleveland, Ohio he became board-certified in ophthalmology and founded Utah’s first Medicare-certified eye surgery center in 1985. In 2006, Jay joined the Church’s vision advisory committee for worldwide humanitarian projects and became a short-term specialist for vision project development and training. In 2010, he was called to serve as president of the Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Mission where he and Pat served together until 2013. Since then, Jay has served as a stake president and temple sealer. His personal interests include scuba diving, music, and time with family.