Fletcher Allen Health Care Board of Trustees

The Fletcher Allen Health Care Board of Trustees has 18 members. Fletcher Allen’s four parent organizations -- Fanny Allen Corporation, Vermont Health Foundation (VHF), University Health Center and the University of Vermont (UVM) – have the power under Fletcher Allen’s by-laws to appoint four trustees each to the board. Three of these organizations – Fanny Allen, VHF and UVM -- have authorized the Fletcher Allen board to act for them in this matter. In addition to the 16 appointed members, the board includes the President and Chief Executive Officer of Fletcher Allen and the Chair of the board, who is elected by his or her fellow trustees. Under Fletcher Allen’s affiliation agreement with UVM, two of the board appointees from UVM are the Dean of the College of Medicine and the Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. In addition, the board includes one non-voting member, the current president of the Fletcher Allen Medical Staff, who serves on the board during the year of his or her presidency.

Each trustee serves a four-year term, and may serve any number of additional terms as long as no more than two full terms are served consecutively. Trustees do not receive compensation for their service, other than expense reimbursements. Their terms are staggered to allow one-fourth of the members’ terms to expire each year, with the exception of the President/CEO and Chair.

BOARD CHAIR

Christopher Dutton

Dutton is President and Chief Executive Officer of Colchester-based Green Mountain Power Corporation (GMP), a position he has held since 1997. An active member of the greater Burlington community, Dutton is a director of the Vermont Business Roundtable.  He serves as a member of the Vermont Law School Board of Trustees and has served as chair of the Chittenden South Supervisory School District. He also has served as a member of the Champlain Valley Union High School Board of Directors and the Regional Technical Academy Committee, as a director of the Chittenden County United Way and as a director of the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts. He is a resident of Shelburne, Vt.

PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Melinda L. Estes, M.D.

Dr. Estes became president and chief executive officer of Fletcher Allen Health Care in October 2003. She is a neurologist and neuropathologist who also has a master's degree in business administration. Prior to joining Fletcher Allen, Dr. Estes spent most of the previous two decades in The Cleveland Clinic health care system, holding a variety of positions of progressive responsibility. From 2001 - 2003, she served as chief executive officer and chair of the board of governors of Cleveland Clinic Florida where she oversaw both Cleveland Clinic Naples and Cleveland Clinic Weston.

For more information, please read Dr. Estes' biographical information.

Jan K. Carney, M.D., M.P.H.

Carney is Research Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Public Health at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. She is a former commissioner of the Vermont Department of Health, serving as commissioner from 1989 to 2003 under the administrations of Governors Madeleine Kunin, Richard Snelling and Howard Dean. Dr. Carney is board-certified in internal medicine and preventive medicine. She is a resident of South Burlington, Vt. 

Sarah E. Carpenter

Carpenter is the Executive Director of the Vermont Housing Finance Agency. From 1983-1998 she served as the Executive Director of Cathedral Square Corporation Carpenter. She holds a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s in Social Work from the University of Vermont. She has been the recipient of several awards including the YWCA Susan B. Anthony Woman of the Year Award, and a recent NeighborWorks America Government Service Award. Carpenter has served on numerous voluntary boards including the the National Council of State Housing Agencies and the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. She is a resident of Burlington, Vt.

Alan J. Charron

Charron is a former epidemiology administrator with the Vermont Department of Health.  He served in a series of positions with state government from 1970 to 2001 when he retired.  During his career, Charron worked in the areas of public health, health planning, local health services, budget analysis and economic analysis.  He is a resident of Burlngton, Vt.

Danielson is the president of the Fletcher Allen Medical Staff.  He assumed his position in October 2007 for a one-year term.  He is a non-voting member of the board.  Danielson, an oral  and maxillofacial surgeon with Champlain Valley Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in South Burlington, has been practicing dentistry and oral surgery for more than 30 years.  He is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and serves as chair of the section of Dentistry and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the College of Medicine. Danielson is a resident of South Burlington. 

Elizabeth (Betsy) Davis, R.N., M.P.H., LLD (Honorary)

Davis is the former president & CEO of the Visiting Nurse Alliance of Vermont and New Hampshire, Inc. She worked in the field of home health and hospice care for nearly 40 years, retiring in 2002. Davis was executive director of the Visiting Nurse Association of Burlington for 20 years, from 1964 -1984. She is a resident of Burlington, Vt.

A. Donald Gilbert, Jr.

Gilbert is president and chief executive officer of Vermont Gas Systems, Inc. He has been with the company since 2001 in a variety of management roles including marketing, finance, business planning and regulatory affairs since 1987. He has also served as a utilities analyst with the Vermont Public Service Board and as project engineer with the Vermont Public Power Supply Authority. Gilbert lives in South Burlington, Vt.

Joseph Haddock, M.D.

Haddock is a primary care physician at the Thomas Chittenden Health Center in Williston, and has been practicing medicine for more than 25 years. He is a member and past president of the Fletcher Allen Medical Staff. Dr. Haddock is the recipient of the Vermont Medical Society’s 2004 Physician of the Year Award. He is a resident of Jericho, Vt.

Rita Markley

Markley is the executive director of the Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS) in Burlington, an organization that provides emergency shelter, services and housing for people who are homeless or marginally housed. Markley joined COTS in 1992 and was named executive director in 1996. She is a founding member of the Vermont Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations and the Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness. She is a resident of Burlington, Vt.

Stephen P. Marsh

Marsh is the president of Community National Bank in Derby, Vermont, and the former chair of the board of North Country Health System in Newport. He also serves on the boards of the Associated Industries of Vermont, Northeastern Vermont Development Association, the Workforce Development Council, Housing Vermont and on the Executive Committee of the Vermont Bankers Association. He lives in Newport Center, Vt.

Philip B. Mead, M.D. 

Marc H. Monheimer

Monheimer is an adjunct professor at the University of Vermont School of Business Administration and was Associate General Counsel/Insurance at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a Washington, D.C. based federal agency from which he retired in 2004. He is an honors graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and its law school. He practiced law in San Francisco until going to Washington, D.C, in 1993 with his wife, the Honorable Louise F. Stoll, former Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs and Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. Department of Transportation. He served as an officer in the United States Army from 1952-1954, during which time he received a Bronze Star for meritorious service. Monheimer resides with his wife in Burlington, Vt. 

Frederick C. Morin, III, M.D.

Morin is Dean of the College of Medicine. He joined the University of Vermont  from the University of Buffalo, State University of New York, where he was the A. Conger Goodyear Professor and Chair of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Chief of Pediatric Service for Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo and Kaleida Health. He also served as Interim Vice President for Health Affairs at the University of Buffalo and as Interim Dean of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences from 2005 to 2006.

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Morin completed his residency in Pediatrics at Stanford University and a Research Fellowship in Neonatology at the University of California, San Francisco.   He and his family reside in Burlington, Vt.

Rodney Parsons, Ph.D.

Parsons currently is Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, since 1979.  He joined the University of Vermont faculty in 1967 and is actively involved in several National Institutes of Health-funded research studies. He is a resident of Charlotte, Vt.

John Powell

Powell has recently returned to the Vermont homebuilders. He, and his son, operate Powell Design-Build, a company that builds and markets homes. With over thirty years of experience Powell is currently permitting several home sites on the beach of Lake Champlain. Powell spent the previous four years as the executive director of the Lake Champlain Housing Development Corporation. He is the past owner and CEO of Flanders Building Supply, Inc. in Essex Junction, and is a resident of Colchester, Vt

Betty Rambur, Ph.D., RN

Rambur is dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at The University of Vermont (UVM).  As dean, Rambur is responsible for all educational, research, outreach activities, and financial and fund-raising matters of the College. Rambur has raised approximately $10 million in private funds in support of student scholarships, endowed professorships, and emerging pedagogies such as simulated learning. Rambur received her Ph.D. in nursing from Rush University in Chicago, IL and maintains an active research program focused on alignment of the health professional workforce with state, regional, national, and international needs.  In response to pressing statewide workforce challenges, she developed the highly successful Office of Nursing Workforce Research, Planning, and Development.  She has led or participated in research, education, and public service grants exceeding $2 million and is author of about 30 published articles and numerous invited presentations on her research, leadership development, and health systems and policy.  In 2007, she was honored by Sigma Theta Tau International with their Award for International Nursing Excellence.

Roger Stone

Stone retired in 2008.  He was formerly president of Stone Investment Advisory, Inc., Burlington, providing investment management and investment consulting services from 1995.  He spent the preceding 25 years with institutional investment management firms in Boston.  His responsibilities included senior portfolio management and institutional management positions.  Stone graduated from the University of Vermont in 1964.  He and his wife, Kit, reside in Shelburne.

Dennis Vane, M.D., MBA

Vane serves as the Chief of Pediatric Surgery and associate director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Vermont Children's Hospital at Fletcher Allen Health Care. He serves as a Governor of the American College of Surgeons and is on the Board of Directors of Vermont Managed Care and The Center for Donation and Transplantation, Fletcher Allen's Organ Procurement Organization, as well as on the Editorial Board of several professional journals. He is a resident of Charlotte, Vt.