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To: University of Vermont Community
From: Tom Sullivan, President
David V. Rosowsky, Provost and Senior Vice President
Re: Appointment of Dr. Richard L. Page, Dean of the Larner College of Medicine
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Richard L. Page as Dean of the Larner College of Medicine. Dr. Page is currently the George R. and Elaine Love Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School
of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Page succeeds Dr. Rick Morin, who has served as Dean of the Larner College of Medicine since 2007.
Dr. Page grew up in Storrs, Connecticut. He graduated from Duke University in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology. He received his medical degree from Duke University in 1984, serving as a Stanley J. Sarnoff Fellow in the Department of Pharmacology
at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1982-1983. He completed a residency in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, followed by research and clinical fellowships in Cardiology and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. From 1990 to 1992, he served as Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Duke University Medical Center. He then joined the faculty as Director of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas in 1992, where he rose to tenured Professor of Internal Medicine and Dallas Heart Ball Chair in Cardiac Arrhythmia Research. From 2002 to 2009, he served as the Robert A. Bruce Endowed Chair
in Cardiovascular Research and Head of the Division of Cardiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, where he also earned a Certificate in Medical Management in 2007.
In 2009, he assumed his current position at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. At the University of Wisconsin, he has led a department committed to professionalism in the pursuit of patient-centered care, transformational research,
and innovative educational programs. He serves, ex-officio, on the Executive Committee of the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Authority Board of Directors, and on the Board of Directors of the University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation. He is
a member of the Madison Town and Gown Club, an academic/civic organization that dates to 1878.
With more than 200 publications, articles, and book chapters, Dr. Page is a nationally-recognized specialist in cardiac arrhythmias with interest in treatment of atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac arrest. He has served on numerous national committees, including
the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guidelines Task Force; he will soon complete a four-year appointment as chair of the Circulatory Devices Panel of the US Food and Drug Administration. He is a Fellow of the American Heart Association,
and has chaired their Council on Clinical Cardiology. He is also a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society, where he served on the Board from 2001 to 2012 and was President from 2009-2010. He is past-President of the Association of Professors of Cardiology and
is a Councilor of the Association of Professors of Medicine. Dr. Page is an elected member of the Association of University Cardiologists, the American Clinical and Climatological Association, and the Association of American Physicians.
Dr. Page is married to novelist Jean Reynolds Page; they have 3 children, ages 27-31. They are looking forward to joining the UVM community this fall.
We wish to thank the faculty, staff, students and others who served on the Search Committee, ably chaired by Chair of the Department of Medicine, Dr. Polly Parsons, and Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Dr. Patty Prelock.
We look forward to working with Dr. Page as a member of the University’s academic leadership team.. Please join us in welcoming him to the University of Vermont.
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