MONTPELIER –  Peter Dale, MD, FACP, of Montpelier has become president of the Vermont Medical Society for 2005-2006.

Dr. Dale is an internist at Mountainview Medical in Berlin and has been on the medical staff at the Central Vermont Hospital since 1988. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, with a subspecialty in infectious diseases.

Dr. Dale received his medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in 1980, and did both his internship and residency in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital. From 1983 to 1986, he did a fellowship in infectious diseases at the Boston University School of Medicine.

Before returning to Vermont, he was an assistant visiting physician in the Department of Medicine at Boston City Hospital, and co-director of the hospital’s sexually transmitted disease clinic. He was also an assistant professor of medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine.

Dr. Dale has served on the Board of Directors of the Dartmouth Hitchcock Alliance since 1997, and has been a member of the Board of Directors at the Central Vermont Medical Center since 1994. He was chairman of CVMC’s board from 2001 to 2003. He has served on the Board of Directors of Gifford Memorial Hospital in Randolph, and has been president of the Central Vermont Hospital’s medical staff. Dr. Dale has been chairman of the Infection Control Committee at the Central Vermont Hospital since 1990.

Dr. Dale began his one-year term as president of the Vermont Medical Society at the society’s 192^nd Annual Meeting, held Oct. 15 at the Killington Grand Hotel in Killington. During the next year, Dr. Dale said his top priority as president of the Vermont Medical Society will be working to achieve universal access to health care in Vermont and developing strategies to contain the rising cost of health care.

The Vermont Medical Society represents more than 1,500 physicians licensed in Vermont. The mission of the Vermont Medical Society is to serve the public by facilitating and enhancing physicians’ individual and collective commitments, capabilities and efforts to improve the quality of life for the people of Vermont through the provision of accessible and appropriate health care services.