Copley Hospital welcomes new medical director of emergency department

Anne O’Connor, MD, former assistant professor at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, has joined Copley Hospital in Morrisville as medical director of the emergency department.

O’Connor, who also served as attending physician in emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, received a medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School. She completed her emergency medicine residency at the University of North Carolina and fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.

Kim Peake promoted to director of financial integrity at Blue Cross Vermont

Kim Peake of Essex has been promoted to director of financial integrity at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont, the state’s only local, nonprofit health plan. Peake has been at Blue Cross for 17 years; during that time has held several roles in underwriting, including associate underwriter, underwriter, senior underwriter and most recently, manager of underwriting.