Howard Schapiro, MD, an anesthesiologist at Fletcher Allen Health Care and associate professor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, has been selected to serve as interim president of the UVM Medical Group and interim senior associate dean of Clinical Affairs at the College. He will serve in these roles while a national search is conducted to replace Paul Taheri, MD, MBA who recently left for a leadership position at Yale University.
Anesthesiologist and associate professor David Adams, MD, will assume Dr. Schapiro’s roles as Anesthesiology Health Care Service leader at Fletcher Allen and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the College of Medicine on an interim basis.
Dr. Schapiro received his medical degree at UVM and completed his residencies in surgery and anesthesiology at what was then was known as the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont. Dr. Schapiro also completed a fellowship in obstetric anesthesia at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City before returning to UVM/Fletcher Allen. He has led Anesthesiology at Fletcher Allen and the College of Medicine for the past 15 years.
Dr. Schapiro has been actively involved in the UVM Medical Group since its formation, most recently serving as chair of the Finance Committee. He is also treasurer of the Fletcher Allen Medical Staff and secretary/treasurer of the Vermont Medical Society.
Fletcher Allen Health Care, together with our partners at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, is Vermont’s academic medical center. Fletcher Allen, along with Central Vermont Medical Center, CVPH Medical Center and Elizabethtown Community Hospital, are members of Fletcher Allen Partners, established todevelop a more coordinated system of care throughout the region. Fletcher Allen’s mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves by integrating patient care, education and research in a caring environment. Fletcher Allen also serves as a regional referral center -- providing advanced care to approximately one million people in Vermont and northern New York -- and as a community hospital for approximately 150,000 residents in Chittenden and Grand Isle counties.
Located in Burlington, the University of Vermont College of Medicine was founded in 1822 as the nation’s seventh medical school. One of only 137 medical schools in the US, the College and teaching hospital Fletcher Allen Health Care comprise Vermont’s academic medical center, where more than one-third of Vermont’s physicians were educated or trained. Enrollment currently includes 449 medical students, 147 graduate and post-doctoral students, and 290 residents and fellows. The College received $78 million in external research funding in 2011, and employs 762 full-time faculty and 415 staff, with over 1100 part-time faculty participating in medical education of students around the region.