October 22, 2009 Lynn E. Wilkinson, MD was recently appointed Medical Director of the Hospitalist Service at Central Vermont Medical Center. Dr. Wilkinson was most recently an attending physician in the Departments of Primary Care Internal Medicine and Family Practice at Fletcher Allen Health Care.
She also served as Medical Director of the Green Mountain Nursing Home in Colchester, Vermont and as Co-Medical Director of the Hospice of the Champlain Valley. Prior to moving to Vermont she worked as a Hospitalist at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts.
“Dr. Wilkinson has been serving as the interim medical director for the past several months and has done an excellent job working with the hospitalists, nursing, and administration to improve services for our patients,” stated Donna Izor, vice president of physician services.
“During her tenure as interim director she developed and initiated the use of a physician assistant in the service, successfully recruited new physicians to both full time and moonlighting positions, and worked with the ED and inpatient psychiatry medical directors to improve services across areas,” continued Izor. “Her open management style encourages questions and concerns about the program offering opportunities for improvement. Dr. Wilkinson’s enthusiasm and experience will allow us to develop our hospitalist service into the best in the state.”
Born and raised in West Virginia, Dr. Wilkinson received her BA. in Molecular Biology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She also completed medical school there and was recognized by receiving the John G. Coniglio Prize in Biochemistry.
Dr. Wilkinson completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas.
For six months in 1999 Dr Wilkinson was a volunteer Clinical Physician in Quito, Ecuador and the Ecuadorean Amazon working on the Shuar Medical Clinic Project through the organization, Child Family Health International based out of San Francisco, CA.
Dr. Wilkinson has taught medical students and residents throughout her career and received recognition for excellence in teaching in medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.
She and her husband David Connery live in Shelburne and have two children, Madeleine who is four years old and Ted, who is two years old.
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