Physician assistant joins staff at hospital

Brianne Hodge, a physician assistant, has joined the staff of the occupational medicine department at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.

Occupational medicine helps businesses maintain the health, wellness and safety of employees through prevention and management of work-related injury, illness and disability.

Hodge is a recent graduate of the master’s degree program for physician assistants at Gannon University in Erie, Pa.; she holds a bachelor’s in health sciences from Gannon. She is certified by the National Commission on Certification of  Physician Assistants.

Hodge will work alongside physicians, rehabilitation therapists and clinical psychologists.

She moved to Vermont to join her husband, who is a doctoral student at the University of Vermont.