July 23, 2007 Berlin, Vt – Dr. Philip Brown, Medical Director of Central Vermont Medical Center’s Emergency Department announced that two doctors have been added to the existing Emergency Department. “We anticipate that between 29,500 and 30,000 patients will be evaluated by CVMC’s Emergency Department this year,” noted Dr. Brown.
Dr. Robert Amburgey received his M.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and did his Emergency Medicine Residency at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His undergraduate work was done at Michigan State University where he earned a Bachelor of Science, Cum Laude in Human Biology.
While at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine he was team captain of the intramural basketball team, co-captain of the flag football team and founded “the Locker Room,” an after-school program for urban adolescent males in the greater Cincinnati area. On why he chose to join the CVMC team, Dr. Amburgey said, “It’s an extraordinary combination of a wonderful place to live and great people to work with.”
Dr. Amburgey and his wife, Dr.Laurie Amburgey, a high risk obstetrics Fellow at the University of Vermont’s Fletcher Allen Health Care, live in South Burlington. In his spare time Dr. Amburgey plays basketball, enjoys backpacking and hiking, and is learning to play golf.
Also joining the CVMC Emergency Department is Kalev Freeman, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Freeman participated in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Colorado, a National Institutes of Health-funded program for combined M.D. and Ph.D. training. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan. Dr Freeman completed his Internship in Surgery at the University of Colorado and Denver Health Medical Center. He did his residency in Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center, an Echocardiography elective at Maharaj Hospital, Chiang Mai, Thailand and a Pediatric Echocardiography elective at The Children’s Hospital in Denver, Colorado.
Dr. Freeman has been extensively published and he was a mentor at the City School Summer Program at Boston Medical Center and a music therapy volunteer in the Department of Pediatrics in collaboration with Berklee College of Music.
In his spare time he enjoys playing bluegrass and jazz violin, snowboarding, mountain biking and accompanying his wife, a botanist at the University of Vermont , on field collection trips. “ I feel very lucky to have the opportunity to work at a CVMC, with its terrific reputation, while living in Vermont, a state known for its skiing , hiking and bluegrass music.”
Dr. Freeman and his wife Monique McHenry live in Duxbury.
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