After 23 years of working in various government and private sector health positions in Washington, D.C., he returned to Utah to lead the Utah Department of Health (UDOH). His nomination to serve as the Executive Director of the UDOH by Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr., was confirmed by the Utah State Senate on January 17, 2005. Sundwall had been called to Washington earlier to work as director of the health staff of the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee when Orrin Hatch assumed the chairmanship, after 1981.
After 23 years of working in various government and private sector health positions in Washington, D.C., he returned to Utah to lead the Utah Department of Health (UDOH). His nomination to serve as the Executive Director of the UDOH by Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr., was confirmed by the Utah State Senate on January 17, 2005. Sundwall had been called to Washington earlier to work as director of the health staff of the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee when Orrin Hatch assumed the chairmanship, after 1981.