Gifford Health Care Welcomes Cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Greene

Prevention-focused cardiologist brings expert heart care close to home for central Vermont

RANDOLPH, Vt. — Gifford Health Care welcomes Jonathan B. Greene, MD, FACC, RPVI, a board-certified cardiologist, to its cardiology team.

Dr. Greene comes to Gifford after ten years as a staff cardiologist with Emerson Health in Concord, Massachusetts. There he also served as Director of Echocardiography at Emerson Hospital and sat on the hospital’s Medical Executive Committee and Anticoagulation Safety Committee.

He completed his internal medicine residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and his cardiovascular disease fellowship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, where he was chief fellow. He earned his medical degree at Tufts University School of Medicine and his bachelor’s degree at New York University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a Registered Physician in Vascular Interpretation.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, and Dr. Greene’s practice centers on prevention. He sees his job as making sure patients understand every option in front of them.

“My role is to educate patients on the risks and benefits of the medical decisions they get to make. Then they choose how they want to pursue their health,” said Dr. Greene. “There’s so much misinformation out there now. Having a person guide you through those choices, someone who knows the latest research and has the experience to apply it to you as an individual, is really valuable.”

Dr. Greene’s interest in caring for people with limited access to care began in college. He volunteered with a vaccination program in rural Gambia and in tuberculosis and leprosy clinics in India. He trained at large academic medical centers but chose community practice.

“I went into medicine not to be a researcher, but to be a clinician and take care of the community,” he said. “It’s really important to me to care for a community that might not otherwise have that access. That was one of the strongest reasons I chose to work here.”

Dr. Greene moved to Waterbury in August with his wife and their two children. Since arriving, the family has hiked Camel’s Hump and other local peaks, and they are looking forward to their first ski season at Bolton Valley.

To schedule an appointment with Dr. Greene, ask your primary care provider for a referral.

For more information about Gifford Health Care, visit www.giffordhealthcare.org.

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About Gifford Health Care: Gifford Health Care is a community hospital in Randolph, Vt., with family health centers in Berlin, Bethel, Chelsea, Randolph, and Rochester, and specialty services throughout central Vermont. A Federally Qualified Health Center and a Top 100 Critical Access Hospital in the country, Gifford has earned both a 5-star Overall Hospital Quality Rating and a 5-star Patient Survey Rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — the highest recognition possible in both categories. Gifford is a full-service hospital with a 24-hour emergency department and inpatient unit, many surgical services, daycare, an adult day program, and a 30-bed nursing home. The Birthing Center, established in 1977, was the first in Vermont to offer an alternative to traditional hospital-based deliveries and remains a leader in midwifery and family-centered care. As a community health center and medical home, Gifford’s mission is to improve and manage the health of the people we serve by providing and assuring access to affordable, high-quality health care, and by promoting the health and well-being of everyone in our service area.