Celebrating 2022 Emeriti Faculty

The UVM Children’s Hospital honors the faculty members who have spent years serving patients and families in Vermont and upstate New York. The following faculty have recently earned emeriti status in recognition of their dedication to patient care, research, and teaching.

Stephen Contompasis, M.D. 1994 – 2016

Ann Guillot, M.D. 1979 – 2017

Barbara Frankowski, M.D. 1985 – 2018

Eliot Nelson, M.D. 1991 – 2018

Vt Lend

Since 1995, the Vermont Leadership Education on Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (VT LEND) program trains 12 individuals annually in their nine-month, 300-hour program. The goal is to train culturally responsive health professionals prepared to improve health care systems for children with autism spectrum disorder and developmental disabilities. With the leadership of Program Director Mercedes Avila, Ph.D., M.S.W., VT LEND has received state and national recognition as one of the most

Richard Wasserman, M.D. 1983 – 2019

Craig Lawrence Kien, M.D., Ph.D. 2004 – 2019

Barry Heath, M.D. 1981 – 2020

Ann Wittpenn, M.D. 1997 – 2020

Leah Burke, M.D. 2001 – 2020

Richard Colletti, M.D. 1974 – 2020

Alan Homans, M.D. 1992 – 2021

Judith Shaw, Ed.D., M.P.H., RN 2000 – 2021 diverse LEND programs in the country and as a leading program advancing culturally responsive practice and education. In 2022, VT LEND trainees represented 50 percent racial/ethnic diversity with trainees from Georgia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. VT LEND faculty/staff are from Vermont, New Mexico, New York, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In the past year, VT LEND faculty and staff conducted 90 continuing and community education trainings and technical assistance sessions and developed 28 products, including reports, journal articles, web-based products, and conference presentations. VT LEND is funded under a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) 5-year grant.

Afghan, Somali, Sudanese, and Congolese pediatric refugees were medically resettled by the Pediatric New American Program (PNAP) throughout Vermont in 2022. The PNAP team produced a webinar series on refugee resettlement that is housed permanently on the Vermont Medical Society website. The Building Strong Families (BSF) Clinic, a partnership with the Janet S. Munt Family Room, provided 43 percent of the resettled families with food resources in addition to health care visits. BSF’s bilingual and bicultural community health workers connect families to a multitude of needed supports and resources. The BSF Clinic will start a hybrid model of group well-care visits for children in immigrant families under age 6 as well as individual visits in the new year. The group well-child care model allows parents more time to learn about parenting in a new country as well as offering peer-to-peer support. Through our partnership with the Family Room, “Super Group,” an autism support group for immigrant families, has flourished.