Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH) President and CEO, Steven R Gordon announced today that Robert Bassett, MD has joined the BMH Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine department. “Dr Bassett’s impressive hand-surgery skills and experience are great additions to an already talented orthopaedics team,” said Gordon. “His particular expertise in procedures related to the hands and upper extremities adds capacity to the department, and enable us to treat patients with complex orthopaedic needs closer to home,” added Dr Elizabeth McLarney, BMH’s Orthopaedics Medical Director.

Paul E Jarris, MD, MBA, a nationally known expert in national healthcare policy, clinical quality initiatives, and disease prevention and wellness, has been named Chief Medical Officer at the March of Dimes Foundation, effective February 15, 2017. In his new role, Dr Jarris, who currently serves as Senior Vice President, Maternal and Child Health Program Impact at the March of Dimes, will lead the Foundation's medical and public health efforts to reduce infant mortality, birth defects and premature birth, the leading causes of death and disability among babies in the United States.

VHB is excited to welcome Damian Roy to the Vermont office as a CADD Designer. In this role Damian will support the Vermont office’s Land Development team with the development of site plans and designs for a variety of public and private clients. Damian graduated from Vermont Technical College with an Associates Degree in Engineering specializing in Civil Engineering Technology and has close to twenty years of professional experience in technical writing and drafting, traffic evaluation, site layout survey, and site quantities estimation.