Faith Brown, former CEO of the Vermont Community Foundation and resident of Underhill, Vermont, joined the Goddard College staff as Chief Finance and Administration Officer on Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Brown replaces former CFO Bob Kenny who served the College for two years before recently returning to teaching at St. Michael’s College.

Gastroenterologist Richard I. Rothstein, MD has been named interim Chair of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock. Rothstein, currently the Chief of the Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and a professor of medicine and of surgery at Dartmouth Medical School, will serve during the transition to a new permanent chair. He will succeed Dr. Murray Korc, who will step down after eight years as chair of medicine. Dr. Rothstein’s appointment takes effect August 1.

Dr. Matthew Rapp is a recent addition to the CVMC Hospitalist Team. Originally from northern Virginia, he received his BS, Cum Laude from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and his MS in Human Genetics from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Medical School and internship were at George Washington University School of Medicine and Medical Center. Dr. Rapp’s residency was at the University of Vermont/Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington.

Craig Bailey of Winooski has joined the team at Montpelier electronic marketing and advertising firm Signal as a Web Developer. Bailey helps build and maintain Signal's portfolio of advanced Web sites for clients that include Smugglers' Notch Resort, Cabot Cheese, Agri-Mark, Central Vermont Medical Center and many others.

Citizens Bank has hired MaryBeth DeFalco as business banking officer in the Upper Valley and Rutland/West markets in New Hampshire and Vermont. She is responsible for overseeing the development of new and existing relationships with business customers, consulting with business owners to identify banking needs and working with business banking officers and branch staff to provide quality customer service. Her market area includes the towns of Lebanon, West Lebanon, and Hanover, N.H., and White River Junction, Woodstock, Rutland, Castleton, West Pawlet, and Poultney,Vt.

Kelliher Samets Volk, a marketing communications firm with locations in Burlington, Vt., Boston and New York, welcomes two new employees to its Burlington office.

Alex Brady took a full time position with Lund Family Center as their Event and Volunteer coordinator in March 2011. Alex interned during his Senior Spring semester while studying at the University of Vermont. He graduated from the UVM School of Business in 2010.

Deborah Mackin, principle consultant at New Directions Consulting, Inc. and author of the team-building tool kit series, including The Team-Building Tool Kit, Second Edition in 2007 (AMACOM), recently published Building a Process-Efficiency Mindset in Pharmafocus Magazine’s June edition.

Bill Cairns, Bromley Mountain’s recently named General Manager, has wasted little time in shaping the storied mountain’s management team more to his liking.

“I’ve been with Bromley for 30 years, 25 of those years as Director of Mountain Operations,” says Cairns. “Believe me, I know this mountain and know the depth of talent we’re fortunate enough to have in management. With my [former] position open, I had an opportunity to restructure assignments, capitalizing on everyone’s strengths, all from within.”

Cheung Wong, M.D., associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and director of gynecologic oncology, has been appointed as associate dean for continuing medical education at the UVM College of Medicine. The announcement was made today by Frederick C. Morin, III, M.D., dean of the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and Paul A. Taheri, M.D., M.B.A., senior associate dean for clinical affairs and president of the UVM Medical Group.