Lewis First, M.D., professor and chair of pediatrics at the University of Vermont (UVM) College of Medicine, has announced that Roger Soll, M.D., UVM professor of pediatrics, has been named the Harry Wallace Professor of Neonatology.
In 1995, Jo-Anne Wallace and her children established this endowed faculty position to honor the memory of her late husband, local businessman and philanthropist Harry Wallace, who passed away in 1994. He built the first McDonald’s in the state of Vermont, as well as mortgaged his own house to establish the Ronald McDonald House in Burlington. Jerold Lucey, M.D., professor emeritus of pediatrics, former editor of Pediatrics and founder of the Vermont Oxford Network, was the first Wallace Professor of Neonatology named at the UVM College of Medicine, and he held this position until his retirement in 2010.
In addition to supporting the professorship, the Wallace endowment supports educational and clinical research focused on newborn medicine in the department of pediatrics.
Soll, who is board-certified in pediatrics and neonatology, joined UVM/Vermont Children’s Hospital at Fletcher Allen in 1984. In addition to his UVM faculty position, he serves as director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and director of the neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship program at Vermont Children’s Hospital at Fletcher Allen Health Care. The president and director of clinical trials of the Vermont Oxford Network, Soll earned his medical degree from the former University of the Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School (now Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science) and served a residency in pediatrics at New York University/Bellevue Hospital, followed by a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at the former Medical Center Hospital of Vermont/UVM in Burlington. In addition, he is coordinating editor for the Neonatal Collaborative Group of the Cochrane Collaboration, which specializes in doing systematic reviews on a variety of neonatal topics.
Soll and his family reside in Hinesburg, Vt.
