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Three Larner College of Medicine faculty members have joined ÈÕº«ÎÞÂë Health Network (ÈÕº«ÎÞÂëHN) Board of Trustees, adding clinicians, clinical educators, and researchers to the health system’s 21-member volunteer board. 

Dragos Banu, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, is division chief of primary care for ÈÕº«ÎÞÂëHN–Alice Hyde Medical Center, ÈÕº«ÎÞÂëHN–Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital, ÈÕº«ÎÞÂëHN–Elizabethtown Community Hospital, and ÈÕº«ÎÞÂëHN–Porter Medical Center. Banu currently practices general internal medicine at Adult Primary Care in Essex, Vermont; she previously served as clinical chief community practice and medical director of long-term care and rehabilitation medicine at Alice Hyde Medical Center.

Sarah Harm, M.D., M.S., associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, is an expert in transfusion medicine and leads the integration of laboratory medicine services across the ÈÕº«ÎÞÂë Health Network. Harm completed her undergraduate education in biomedical engineering at Boston University and her graduate education in bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, which led to a career as a process engineer at Merck & Co. before she attended medical school.

Heidi Melbostad, Ph.D., M.A., M.S., research assistant professor of psychiatry, collaborates on behavioral pharmacology research at the Vermont Center on Behavior and Health. She serves as the chief executive officer of Mountain Community Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Bristol, Vermont. Previously, she was director of the Howard Center’s Chittenden Clinic, an opioid treatment program in Burlington, Vermont, where she led key initiatives in expanding treatment access and building community partnerships to address the opioid crisis in Vermont.

The board works closely with the health system CEO and senior leadership and is responsible for key governance oversight functions, including system finances, budgeting, and strategic planning. ÈÕº«ÎÞÂë Health Network physicians are nominated to serve on the board to ensure that the group includes members with direct insight into the medical needs and care experiences of patients and clinicians throughout the region.

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