Pulmonologist Anne Dixon, a professor of medicine at the University of Vermont, has been appointed chair of the Department of Medicine at UVM's Larner College of Medicine. Dixon had been serving as interim chair since October 2022.
A physician-scientist known internationally for her work in asthma and lung diseases related to obesity and metabolic dysfunction, Dixon has been a member of the faculty at UVM since 2001. She has served as chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine since 2009 and as director of the Vermont Lung Center.
“We are fortunate to have such an accomplished clinical and research leader at the helm of the Department of Medicine guiding its faculty, staff and learners,” said Dr. Richard Page, dean of the Larner College of Medicine. “After a national search that attracted many excellent candidates, Dr. Dixon emerged as the right person to lead our largest department.”
Dixon holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Cambridge in England and a medical degree from the University of Oxford. Her training includes an internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins University and a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the University of Washington.