Daniel B. Walsh, MD was named president of the Vermont Medical Society (VMS) during its 200th annual meeting held Oct. 19, at the Basin Harbor Club in Vergennes, Vt.
Dr. Walsh is a Norwich, Vt., resident and vascular surgeon at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. A professor of surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, he earned his B.A. from Harvard College, his M.D. at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed his residency at the University of Michigan Medical Center. He joined the DHMC staff in 1987. He also serves as a consulting surgeon at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital.
As president of VMS, Dr. Walsh will take a lead role in the Society’s public policy efforts in Montpelier and Washington, D.C. Priorities during the upcoming year include efforts to ensure continued access to quality health care during Vermont’s transition to a single-payer system as well as integrating public health and primary care.
Also during the meeting, VMS members elected David Coddaire, MD and James Hebert, MD, president-elect and vice president, respectively.
Dr. Coddaire is a family physician at the Morrisville Family Health Center and a recipient of the 2009 Vermont Medical Society’s Physician of the Year award. He earned his M.D. at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and completed his residency at Fletcher Allen.
Dr. Hebert is a general surgeon at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vt., and a Mackay-Page Professor of Surgery at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, where he earned his M.D. He was named to U.S. News and World Report’s Top Doctors list for 2012-2013, placing in the top 1 percent for excellence in General Surgery with special expertise in Biliary Surgery and Colon & Rectal Surgery.
About the Vermont Medical Society: The Vermont Medical Society is the leading voice of physicians in the state and is dedicated to advancing the practice of medicine by advocating on behalf of Vermont’s doctors and the patients and communities they care for. The Society serves its 2,000 members through public policy advocacy on the state and federal levels, as well as by providing legal, administrative and educational support, producing a rich flow of news and information and offering member benefits that increase medical practice effectiveness and efficiency.
