Dr. Javad Mashkuri, an emergency medicine physician at the University of Vermont Health Network — Central Vermont Medical Center, has been named 2024 recipient of the Davida Coady Gorham Medical Professional of the Year Award by NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals. The award, which was last conferred in 2021, recognizes individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the addiction profession.
Mashkuri joined CVMC's emergency department as a staff physician in 2011 and later served as its medical director. For more than a decade, he has been a leading advocate for helping to reimagine and reshape substance use treatment and recovery in central Vermont.
In the process, Mashkuri has developed a career that includes designing and implementing a new model of outpatient support for individuals in need of alcohol detoxification, advocacy of innovative programs that have made the region a national model for community-based interagency collaboration, and combating the silos and stigma that often fracture networks of support and reduce the effectiveness and availability of care.
“Javad is a wonderful clinician who cares deeply about people and understands the stigma facing individuals with substance use disorder,” said Robert Purvis, executive director of Turning Point Center of Central Vermont.