The University of Vermont Health Network announces five new Board of Trustees appointments, whose four-year terms became effective January 1, 2017. They replace five members of the 17-member board whose terms ended at the close of 2016.
Timothy Davis is a past managing director of Fresh Tracks Capital, a Vermont-based venture capital firm investing in early stage companies and private equity transactions in Vermont. He now serves as an advisor to the fund. Prior to his current position, Davis spent 35 years as president/CEO of technology-based manufacturing companies including startups, turnarounds and restructures. Industries include microelectronics, fiber optics and advanced materials. Davis continues as a member of the University of Vermont Medical Center Board of Trustees. He also serves on the Network Finance Committee and as chair of the Investment Committee.
Virginia L Hood, MBBS, MPH, MACP, FRACP, FRCP Edin, is a professor of Medicine at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and a nephrologist at the University of Vermont Medical Center. She is president emerita of the American College of Physicians (ACP), a past chair of the ACP Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights committee and the International Council and served on their Board of Regents and Advisory Council for Patient Partnerships in Health Care. Dr Hood also serves on the University of Vermont Medical Center Board of Trustees.
William Owens is a partner at Stafford, Owens, Piller, Murnane, Kelleher & Trombley, PLLC, in Plattsburgh, NY following five years of service as the US House of Representative for New York’s 21st District. He served on the Agriculture Committee, Armed Services Committee, Homeland Security Committee, Small Business Committee, and the House Appropriations Committee including the Subcommittee on Defense and the Subcommittee on Homeland Security. He is also a senior advisor to Dentons, a multinational law firm, in its Washington, DC, and Albany, NY offices as a member of the Public Policy Group. Owens also serves as a Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program panel member for the New York State Department of Health. Prior to serving in the US House, Owens was in private practice in Plattsburgh for thirty years.
Robert Laskowski, MD, is principal of Laskowski Advisors, a consultancy focused on assisting health care organizations innovate through understanding value as seen by patients and their families. Additionally, he is a professor of Clinical Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, and an adjunct professor of Health Sciences, University of Delaware. Recently retired as CEO of Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, DE, he helped that organization achieve national recognition as a top health care system. Dr Laskowski has also served as chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Robert Perkins is a retired executive with the New York State Electric and Gas Corporation (NYSEG) who has been a member of the UVM Health Network – Adirondack Region Board of Trustees, the organization that is the parent organization overseeing Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital (CVPH) in Plattsburgh, NY, Elizabethtown Community Hospital (ECH), Elizabethtown, NY, and Alice Hyde Medical Center, Malone, NY. Perkins also serves on the ECH Board of Trustees. He is returning to the UVM Health Network Board and will be a member of its Governance Committee.
About the University of Vermont Health Network
The University of Vermont Health Network is a five-hospital system serving the residents of Vermont and northern New York with a shared mission: working together, we improve people’s lives. The partners are: The University of Vermont Medical Center ; The University of Vermont Health Network – Alice Hyde Medical Center; The University of Vermont Health Network – Central Vermont Medical Center; The University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital; The University of Vermont Health Network – Elizabethtown Community Hospital
Our 4,000 health care professionals are driven to provide high-quality, cost-efficient care as close to home as possible. Strengthened by our academic connection to the University of Vermont, each of our hospitals remains committed to its local community by providing compassionate, personal care shaped by the latest medical advances and delivered by highly skilled experts.