Rudy Fedrizzi (White River Junction, VT) – Board Member
Rudolph (Rudy) Fedrizzi, MD is the Public Health Services District Director for the White River Junction Office of Local Health (OLH) in the VT Department of Health.
From July 2018 until he accepted the OLH District Director position in April 2019, he was a practice facilitator for the UNH Institute for Policy and Practice’s NH Citizens Health Initiative and its Northern New England Practice Transformation Network. He also served as a private healthcare consultant on projects involving food insecurity in children and improving the control and prevention of hypertension and diabetes.
Dr. Fedrizzi previously practiced Obstetrics and Gynecology for 16 years, most recently as a partner in Every Woman’s Care, PLLC in Ithaca, NY (2005-2009). His past administrative and clinical experience includes Chief of OB-GYN Services and training as a flight surgeon at Luke Air Force Base Hospital in Glendale, AZ (1993-1997 – Rank of Major) and Medical Director of the Northern New Mexico Women’s Health and Birth Center in Taos, New Mexico (1997-2003). He holds a medical license in VT.
Dr. Fedrizzi relocated to New Hampshire in the fall of 2009 and in early 2010 assumed the non-clinical role of Director of Clinical Integration in the Center for Population Health at Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock, a community hospital and multi-specialty physician practice located in Keene, NH. He held this position until June of 2018. In that role he took the lead in organizing integration efforts that purposefully and proactively link clinical services with community health partners and resources. He served as a core member of the Healthy Monadnock Initiative project team that ensured continuing progress on the goal of the Initiative to make the Monadnock Region of southwestern NH the healthiest community in the nation. He also served as a member of Cheshire Medical Center’s Accountable Care Organization Leadership Team and chaired the organization’s Research Committee helping to facilitate collaborative research efforts involving the medical campus and academic partners. He actively refined and promoted a Clinical Integration model and regularly shared case examples of Integration projects with local, regional, and national audiences through articles, conferences, and webinars.
Currently, he is Chair of the Leadership Council of the Dartmouth Center for Advancing Rural Health Equity, Chair of the Upper Valley Medical Reserve Corps Advisory Board, Immediate past-President of the Public Health Council of the Upper Valley Board, Treasurer of the Southern NH AHEC Board, and a member of the Twin Pines Housing Trust Board. He is a member of the American Public Health Association and a Board member of its Vermont Affiliate.
He is a summa cum laude graduate of St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. He received his Medical Degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO and completed his Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN.
He has three children, Julianna (31), Peter (28) and Ellie (19). He is an avid reader, whimsical birdhouse builder, and reasonably consistent runner.
