Polly Parsons, M.D
Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Unit

Patrick 310
Fletcher Allen Health Care
111 Colchester Avenue
Burlington, VT. 05401

Voice: (802) 847-6177
Fax: (802) 847-8194

Email: polly.parsons@vtmednet.org

• 1971-1975 Radcliffe College, Harvard University, A.B., Biology (Magna cum laude)
• 1975-1978 University of Arizona M.D., College of Medicine
• 1978-1981 Resident, Internal Medicine University of Colorado Medical Center
• 1981-1985 Fellow, Pulmonary Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
• 1985-1986 Instructor, Department of Medicine University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
• 1986-1992 Assistant, Department of Medicine University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
• 1992-1999 Associate Professor, Department of Medicine University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
• 1999-2000 Professor, Department of Medicine University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
• 2000-Present Professor, Department of Medicine University of Vermont
• 2000-Present Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Unit, Fletcher Allen Health Care
• 2000-Present Chief of Critical Care Services, Fletcher Allen Health Care
• 2000-Present Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program, Fletcher Allen Health Care/UVM

• Pathogenesis of Acute Lung Injury
  

• Diabetic patients have a decreased incidence of acute respiratory distress syndrome.
   
   
• Clinicians' approaches to mechanical ventilation in acute lung injury and ARDS.
   
   
• The effect of chronic alcohol abuse on the incidence of ARDS and the severity of the multiple organ dysfunction syndrome in adults with septic shock: an interim and multivariate analysis.
   
   
• Progress in research on pulmonary-artery catheters.
   
   
• National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and Food and Drug Administration Workshop Report: Pulmonary Artery Catheterization and Clinical Outcomes (PACCO) JAMA 283:2568-72, 2000
   
• The Transient mechanical benefits of a deep inflation in the injured mouse lung. JAP 2002;93:1709-1715.
   
• Future research directions in acute lung injury: Summary of a National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Working Group. AJRCCM (in press)
   
• Critical Care Secrets, Third Edition, Hanley & Belfus, Philadelphia, PA 2002