Experienced radiologist Dr. Yvette Bailey has joined Catamount Radiology, providing full-time radiology services at Gifford Medical Center in Randolph.
A native of New York City who has spent considerable time in Vermont throughout the years, Dr. Bailey brings tremendous experience, clinical knowledge, fellowship training in interventional radiology procedures, and many new methods and techniques that will allow patients to receive faster care, locally.
A graduate of the University of Albany, part of the State University of New York, and the master’s degree program at Boston University, she went on to medical school at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn.
Her childhood dream was to be a surgeon and work in Third World countries to fix facial deformities, but a mandatory radiology course, and then mentorship, with the renowned and pioneering Dr. Lucy Squire in medical school steered Dr. Bailey to radiology.
“She was my mentor and when I took that radiology elective, I fell in love with radiology. I found it was interesting and stimulating. It was a mixture of all specialties. Even though I wasn’t going to be fixing those facial deformities, I was going to be diagnosing them.”
Dr. Bailey went on to diagnostic radiology residencies at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Columbia University/St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, an interventional radiology fellowship, including MRI, at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and a neuroradiology mini fellowship at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
Since then, she has worked in a variety of academic positions, developed the first radiologist assistant program in New England at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, has worked for benefits management companies and has worked for decades as a radiologist and later medical director in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Most recently, she had worked outside of the hospital setting in Connecticut providing what is known as teleradiology.
With a home in Waterbury and a love of Vermont, Dr. Bailey joined Gifford on Dec. 20 to return to the hospital setting.
“I love this place. People have been so friendly. I’m the newly adopted child in a multispecialty family. There’s always a question of where you belong. Everyone has held my hand,” said Dr. Bailey, who felt that warmth even on her first visit to Gifford.
“It was that family feeling and you felt you could contribute your skills to that and advance it. Gifford is a small hospital offering a big punch, and you want to be part of that.”
Board certified by the American Board of Radiology, Dr. Bailey brings a special interest in interventional procedures, female pelvic MRIs and clinical teaching. She is already offering ideas for efficiency, alternative approaches, collegial support and new techniques, meaning greater access to care for patients.