Press Release

For Immediate Release

Nov. 14, 2003

Winooski Physician Becomes President of Vermont Medical Society

James K. O’Brien, M.D., a cardiologist with a practice in Winooski, has become the president of the Vermont Medical Society for 2003-2004.

Dr. O’Brien has practiced medicine in Winooski since 1990, joining the O’Brien Health Center on Mansion Street, a practice that his father Dr. Robert E. O’Brien established in 1948.

The Vermont Medical Society will continue to work with the state’s members of Congress, the American Medical Association, and other organizations to correct the inequities of health care access and declining Medicare payments, Dr. O’Brien said in accepting the president’s position at the VMS Annual Meeting Oct. 17 in Woodstock. The society will also work to reform the medical liability system, address domestic violence issues, and increase education on palliative care, he said.

Dr. O’Brien, a resident of Shelburne, received his undergraduate degree from Providence College in 1981 and his medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in 1985. He did his residency at the Albany Medical Center in Albany, N.Y., in internal medicine from 1985 to 1988 and a fellowship in cardiology from 1988 to 1990. He is a fellow in the American College of Cardiology, and serves as the City of Winooski’s health officer.