Victor Pisanelli, Jr., M.D. President

Dr. Pisanelli is a surgeon at Rutland Regional Medical Center and a Vermont Medical Society council member. Dr. Pisanelli earned his medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in 1973 and joined father's Rutland surgical practice in 1977.

Dr. Pisanelli is the chairman of the RRMC credentials committee and the cancer liason physician between the hospital's cancer center and the American Commission on Cancer. Previously he served as chairman of the hospital's department of surgery in the mid 1980s, president of its medical staff from 1994 to 1996 and a member of its board of directors from 1992 to 2006.
 

Norman Ward, M.D., President-elect

Dr. Ward is a family practice physician medical director of case management at Fletcher Allen Health Care' s South Burlington Family Practice. An associate professor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, he earned his M.D. at Brown University Medical School and completed his residency at the University of Rochester.

 

Daniel Walsh, M.D., Vice President

Dr. Walsh is a Norwich, Vt., resident and vascular surgeon at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.  A professor of surgery at Dartmouth Medical School, he earned his M.D. at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed his residency at the University of Michigan Medical Center.  He joined the DHMC staff in 1987.

 

Howard Schapiro, M.D., Secretary/Treasurer

Dr. Schapiro is an anesthesiologist at Fletcher Allen Health Care (FAHC) and the chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Vermont College of Medicine (UVMCM). He received his bachelor of arts in biology and masters of science in natural sciences/epidemiology from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his medical degree at UVMCM.

An attending anesthesiologist at FAHC since 1986, Dr. Schapiro is currently a member of the hospital's strategic management, faculty practice finance, medical staff executive, and operating room steering committees.

 

Paula Duncan, M.D., Immediate Past President

Dr. Duncan is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, where she is the Youth Project Director for the Vermont Child Health Improvement Program.

Dr. Duncan received her bachelor of arts from Manhattanville College, her medical degree from Women's Medical College in Philadelphia, trained in pediatrics at Albany Medical Center and Stanford and did an adolescent medicine fellowship while a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford. After five years on the faculty at Stanford, she joined the UVMCM faculty.

Nationally, Dr. Duncan is the chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Bright Futures Implementation Advisory Committee and was one of the co-editors of the third edition of Bright Futures Guidelines for Preventive Services.

John Mazuzan, M.D., Treasurer Emeritus

After graduating from the University of Vermont College of Medicine (UVMCM) in 1954, Dr. Mazuzan did his internship at the Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington, and his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. He returned to Burlington in August 1959 and practiced anesthesiology in Burlington area hospitals until retiring in 1996.

Dr. Mazuzan has served as the chairman of the UVMCM Department of Anesthesia and was a member of the Vermont Board of Medical Practice for eight years. He served on the state Board of Health for 20 years.

Dr. Mazuzan has been a VMS member since 1961 and served as its treasurer from 2002 to 2008. He received the VMS Distinguished Service Award in 1976 and the Founders Award in 1999.