Darcy Carter, District Director, welcomes Chris Herriman as an Economic Development Specialist with the U.S. Small Business Administration in the Vermont District Office. Chris is responsible for conducting outreach, training and education to various organizations and small businesses on SBA programs and services.
Ray Keller, M.D., FACEP has been appointed medical director of the Emergency Department at Fletcher Allen Health Care. He has been serving in an interim capacity in that position since October, 2011.
As chief of the division of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Keller will oversee 21 emergency medicine physicians and 14 Physician Assistants who handle approximately 61,000 visits per year to the emergency department and the only Level 1 Trauma Center in Vermont.
Donald A. Woodworth, III, who joined Merritt & Merritt & Moulton in 2012, has recently been admitted to the Vermont bar. Don received his B.A. in history with a minor in Spanish from Northwestern University. He earned a J.D. from the University Of Denver Sturm College Of Law and was admitted to the Colorado bar in 2006. After receiving his J.D., Don worked at Holme Roberts & Owen LLP in Denver where he specialized in general corporate law and mergers and acquisitions. Recently, Don received an M.B.A.
If your knees and/or hips are beginning to hurt, you are not alone. As the Baby Boom generation moves full-speed ahead into their senior years, joint replacement is becoming one of the fastest growing medical procedures. A number of people considering joint replacement surgery attended a joint replacement class at North Country Hospital recently. Thomas Varney MD (seen in the photo), an Orthopaedic surgeon at North Country Orthopedics in Newport, explained the procedure.
A former patient of cardiothoracic surgeon Frank Ittleman, M.D. has donated $1 million to Fletcher Allen Health Care to establish a professorship in his name at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. The creation of the Frank P. Ittleman Professorship will be used to help the hospital and the College attract and retain a nationally recognized cardiothoracic surgeon in the future.
