Here are five things to know about Dr. Pikus and the hospital:
1. Dr. Pikus, of Lebanon-based Upper Valley Neurology Neurosurgery, previously served as chief of neurosurgery and the medical director of radiosurgery at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, Fla. “We are excited about Dr. Pikus joining our staff and working more closely with the superior service that UVNN has to offer,” said President and CEO Susan Mooney, MD.
2. Dr. Pikus is board-certified and has a professional interest in the management of cerebrovascular diseases, spinal diseases including minimally invasive approaches, brain tumors, trigeminal neuralgia, radiosurgery and cranial and spinal trauma.
3. Dr. Pikus earned his medical degree from the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine in Baltimore and completed his neurosurgical residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon. Additionally, he has completed fellowship training in cerebrovascular and skull base surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami School of Medicine in Florida.
4. Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital serves more than 20 communities in Vermont and New Hampshire. It has its origins in the cottage hospital established in Lebanon in 1927. Dr. Susan Mooney serves as its president and CEO; Randy Lea, MD, as its vice president and CMO; and Evalie Crosby as vice president of finance and CFO.
5. In January, the hospital announced that it is pursuing an affiliation agreement with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Discussions between the two hospitals are currently in their initial stages. If talks move forward as expected, Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital anticipates entering into a formal agreement with Dartmouth-Hitchcock by 2015.
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