Sue Baran, N.P.:

Sue Baran is one of the founding members of the Breast Center. She has played a leadership role in the management of patients with breast cancer and melanoma. Sue Baran conducts thousands of visits per year monitoring that patients previously treated for breast cancer or melanoma. She has worked as part of a team conducting clinical trials for prevention in women at more risk for breast cancer.  All are touched by the compassionate care provided.

Seth Harlow, M.D.:

Seth Harlow is Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology and Director of the Breast Center. He has been a national leader in the research, called sentinel node surgery. He has made a particular emphasis on the issues related to training and quality control of this procedure. He has been responsible for training and monitoring surgeons participating in the worlds largest surgical trial in breast cancer. He has flown all over North America training surgeons in the techniques for this procedure and has insured that the 5,600 breast cancer patients enrolled were treated in the highest quality manner possible.

Robin Hayden, N.P.:

Robin Hayden has been a member of the Breast Care Center team since 2000.  She brings many years of Primary Care and Women's Health Nurse Practioner Experience to provide surveillance and care of oncology and high risk patients.  She is also vital to the post-operative care of our patients.  She is actively involved in developing a program for screening and educating women with genetic risk of breast cancer.   

Ted James, M.D.

Ted James is the most recent member to join the Surgical Oncology team.  Dr. James is board certified by the American Board of Surgeons, and received fellowship training in Surgical Oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.  He is a member of several professional organizations including the American College of Surgeons, the Society of Surgical Oncology, and the American Association for Cancer Research.  His clinical practice focuses on benign and malignant breast diseases, melanoma, sarcoma, and endocrine tumors.  His research interests are cancer prevention, tumor biology, and cancer health disparities.  Dr. James has contributed numerous publications to the medical literature and holds an academic appointment at the University of Vermont. 

David Krag, M.D.:

David Krag is the SD Ireland Professor of Surgery. He joined the Surgery Department in 1991 and shortly after his arrival helped found the Breast Center. The guiding principles of the Center were and remain today to provide the best possible care to every patient and to try to develop new ways of treating cancer. David Krag has centered his research in the areas of breast cancer and malignant melanoma. He has developed methods of identifying the lymph nodes most likely to harbor metastatic cancer cells. This allows a much more accurate and less invasive surgery to be performed in the majority of patients. Because of this work more than half of all breast cancer patients and malignant melanoma patients can now be spared the more aggressive surgery to remove all the lymph nodes. This is an example of the value of a coordinated Center, even in this small state of Vermont, can have an impact on patients with cancer around the world.

Larry McCahill, M.D.:

Dr. McCahill has been actively treating breast cancer patients since 1996, and has treated several hundred breast cancer patients during this time period.  He founded and directed the Navy’s first overseas breast clinic in 1997, instituting multidisciplinary care and same day mammograms, breast ultrasound and on-site breast pathology evaluation.  His current research interest in breast cancer is in quality outcomes of breast cancer surgery.  He actively maintains the breast cancer surgery outcomes database.

Sheryl Peterson-Keller, M.D.: 

Dr. Peterson has been with the Breast Care Center, specializing in breast care since the centers foundation.  She has pioneered our approach to nipple discharge with ductoscopy and other intraductal surgical and non-invasive methods.  Dr. Peterson’s primary interest is in benign breast problems and in the high risk patient. 

Mary Stanley is a highly skilled surgeon that has devoted her practice to the care and management of breast cancer patients. She cares for a large number of patients with breast cancer and is widely known for her dedicated and compassionate care. In this role she serves as a model for our young medical students and surgeons in-training. In addition to her cancer care, Mary is involved in research in the High Risk Patient, Screening and “Prevention”.