Margaret A. Tandoh, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
BIO
Tandoh joined the UVM faculty in 2011 and is a dedicated clinician specializing in acute care surgery and the treatment of trauma and burn patients. She has served as the associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at the Larner College of Medicine since 2014 and, in 2020, was invested as the inaugural holder of the Richard L. Gamelli, M.D. ’74 Green and Gold Professorship in Surgery.
At UVM, Tandoh serves as co-chair of the Dean’s Advisory Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and a member of both the Advisory Council and the Learning Environment and Professionalism Committee at Larner. She is also a member of the New England Surgical Society Task Force on Diversity in Surgical Leadership and was appointed to the Vermont Board of Medical Practice in 2019.
Her service has also had global reach. When the Ebola crisis struck West Africa in 2014, Tandoh boarded a plane to her native Liberia and headed into an area with many patients and few resources, setting up an Ebola treatment unit and caring for critically ill patients for nearly two months in the port city of Buchanan.
Bio
Tandoh joined the UVM faculty in 2011 and is a dedicated clinician specializing in acute care surgery and the treatment of trauma and burn patients. She has served as the associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at the Larner College of Medicine since 2014 and, in 2020, was invested as the inaugural holder of the Richard L. Gamelli, M.D. ’74 Green and Gold Professorship in Surgery.
At UVM, Tandoh serves as co-chair of the Dean’s Advisory Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and a member of both the Advisory Council and the Learning Environment and Professionalism Committee at Larner. She is also a member of the New England Surgical Society Task Force on Diversity in Surgical Leadership and was appointed to the Vermont Board of Medical Practice in 2019.
Her service has also had global reach. When the Ebola crisis struck West Africa in 2014, Tandoh boarded a plane to her native Liberia and headed into an area with many patients and few resources, setting up an Ebola treatment unit and caring for critically ill patients for nearly two months in the port city of Buchanan.