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Press ReleaseFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Oct. 20, 2003 VERMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY HONORS DR. JAN
CARNEY
Jan K. Carney, M.D., M.P.H., of South Burlington was presented the award at the 190th Annual Meeting of the Vermont Medical Society, held on Oct. 17-18 at the Woodstock Inn in Woodstock. During Dr. Carney’s 13-year tenure as the state’s commissioner of health, Vermont showed improvement in many important public health areas such as discouraging teenage smoking and expanding access to breast cancer screening. Under Dr. Carney’s leadership, the state set measurable objectives in its Healthy Vermonters 2000 and Healthy Vermonters 2010 reports, and then focused its efforts on achieving the targets. Vermont either met or saw substantial progress on two-thirds of the goals set for the year 2000. The advancements came about through partnerships and collaborations with many organizations, Dr. Carney noted. “It allowed us to take on some really big areas of public health,” she said. “I believe it was the first time here in Vermont that we really organized a group of people and used the data that we had to develop a blueprint for action in public health over a 10-year period.” Dr. Carney said she was honored to have had the opportunity to work with Vermont physicians for more than a decade. “One of the things that was most gratifying for me was to know that even a small positive change in a public health issue translates to health benefits for many, many Vermonters,” she said. Dr. Carney served as the commissioner of health from 1989 to 2003. Before that, she was the deputy commissioner from 1988 to 1989. She received her medical degree in 1981 from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio, and her master’s degree in public health in 1987 from the Harvard University School of Public Health in Boston. She did her residency in internal medicine at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont in Burlington and the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Dr. Carney is now associate dean for public health at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington. She plans to continue playing an active role in public health, doing research, teaching, working with the Vermont Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) program, and overseeing medical students involved in community health projects. The Distinguished Service Award is awarded by the Vermont Medical Society on the basis of meritorious service in the science and art of medicine and the basis of outstanding contribution to the medical profession, its organizations, and the welfare of the public. 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. ***
Photo Caption: Dr. Jan K. Carney (left) accepts the Vermont Medical Society’s
Distinguished Service Award from John N. Evans, Ph.D., acting dean of the
University of Vermont College of Medicine (center) and Dr. James O’Brien,
president of the Vermont Medical Society (right). |
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