Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin recently welcomed pathologist Douglas J Kim, MD, and emergency department physician assistant Deborah Governale to its practice.
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Barbra Marden has been named team leader of the new Partner Success Program at the global health care innovation company THINKMD. Marden, a native of Uganda, brings extensive customer success experience and critical skills to the role, including project management, team leadership and development, and organizational agility.
Julie Arel, former director of the Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in the Vermont Department of Health, has been promoted to deputy commissioner of the department, effective Aug 1. She will serve alongside fellow Deputy Commissioner Kelly Dougherty.
Christine Brown has been promoted from assistant director to director of captive insurance at the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation. She succeeds Sandy Bigglestone, who will be appointed deputy commissioner of the division when David Provost retires at the end of August.
The Waybury Inn in East Middlebury recently welcomed new head chef Tony Petri, who acquired his cooking chops approximately 15 years ago at Breadloaf, the famed Middlebury College mountaintop campus up the hill from the inn.
Retired Army Reserve Colonel William Lyons Jr has been named director of Norwich University's Center for Global Resilience and Security, effective July 1. He succeeds Tara Kulkarni, who served as CGRS’ inaugural director since 2017.
Allison Hooper of Brookfield, co-founder of Vermont Butter & Cheese Company (now Vermont Creamery), and Sherilyn Peterson of Craftsbury Common, of counsel at the Seattle office of the law firm Perkins Coie, have been elected chair and vice chair, respectively, of the Sterling College Board of Trustees, effective July 1.
Vermont Arts Council Executive Director Karen Mittelman has announced she will depart at the end of October.
The University of Vermont has appointed Polly Ericksen as the inaugural director of the Food Systems Research Center, a collaborative partnership between UVM and the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service.
Shelden Goodwin, political outreach director at Vermont Conservation Voters since 2019, has joined the Vermont Democratic Party as finance director, effective July 11. In her new role, Goodwin will lead the party’s strategic fundraising efforts, ensuring a well-funded, sustainable Vermont Democratic Party through this election and well beyond.
Eric Covey, chief of staff to Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos, has been appointed to the board of directors of the CCTV Center for Media & Democracy.
Encore Renewable Energy, a leading community scale solar and energy storage developer in Burlington, has hired the following new staff members since January: