BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro Memorial Hospital announced that it has hired Kathleen McGraw, M.D., FHM, as chief medical officer, replacing David Albright, M.D., who retired in August. McGraw will begin work Jan. 15, 2013.
McGraw comes from Baystate Franklin Medical Center, in Springfield, Mass., where she developed the Hospital Medicine Program and served as its medical director. Under her leadership, that program became the provider of all internal medicine services for BFMC hospitalized patients.
McGraw's Critical Care Rounds program won the health system's presidential safety award, and her team-based approach to stroke care earned both Gold Star and Gold Star Plus awards.
“Dr. McGraw's experience as a hospitalist and her understanding of the patient population in this region will serve her well at BMH. She is a strong addition to our leadership team, and we are very excited to welcome her to BMH and the community,” says BMH President and CEO Steven R. Gordon.
A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Mass., McGraw completed both her internship and residency at Baystate Medical Center.
She began her academic career studying geography, earning a bachelor of science from University of Minnesota. She has a master of science in industrial geography from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and took pre-med at Westfield State College and Greenfield Community College.
In addition to her directorship at Baystate Franklin Medical Center, McGraw had taken on several other staff leadership roles, including chairing the department of medicine, chairing the credentials committee, and serving on the Hospital Leadership's Quality Council. In 2008, she earned the hospital's Medical Staff Leadership Award.