Ramsey Herrington, MD, associate professor of surgery at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, has been appointed as inaugural chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, effective July 1. Herrington joined the UVM faculty in 2006 and has served as division chief of emergency medicine since 2017. In 2021, he was appointed as the inaugural Emergency Medicine Health Care Service leader for the UVM Health Network.
Emergency medicine had its beginnings at UVM in the 1950s and 1960s and has functioned for nearly 50 years as a division of the Department of Surgery. In May, the UVM Board of Trustees voted to approve the College of Medicine’s request to form the Department of Emergency Medicine – the first new department at the college in a decade.
“In addition to aligning our institution with the national standard, the formation of our new Department of Emergency Medicine puts us in a strong position to build on the progress made in this area at UVM and across all UVM Health Network clinical sites,” said Larner Dean Richard Page, MD, and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs Jason Sanders in a joint announcement.
Herrington was appointed after an internal search chaired by Claude Nichols, MD, chair of the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation. Mitchell Norotsky, MD, chair of the Department of Surgery, and his entire department provided significant support for this important transition.