Longtime University of Vermont College of Medicine supporter and alumnus Raymond J. Anton, M.D.’70 received the Medical Alumni Association’s highest honor – the A. Bradley Soule Award – during Medical Reunion 2015, which took place June 12 through 14. In addition to the “Celebration of Achievements – Legends and Leaders” awards event on June 12, the weekend’s activities included the 50th Reunion Welcome Lunch, tours of the College, UVM Medical Center, and Clinical Simulation Laboratory, “Ask the Dean” and medical education sessions, a picnic and “Nostalgia Hour.” (Link to the full Reunion 2015 schedule here.)

Since 1983, the Medical Alumni Association (MAA) has presented the Soule Award to an alumna/us whose loyalty to the College and work to bolster it mirrors that of its namesake, A. Bradley Soule, M.D.’28. Anton fits the bill perfectly. For 45 years, he has devoted time, energy and finances to supporting the College of Medicine and encouraging fellow alumni to do the same. 

An anesthesiologist at Glastonbury Surgery Center in Hartford, Conn., Anton is also a founder of the Hartford Surgical Center, which dates to 1976 as the first outpatient surgical center in the Northeast and sixth in the United States. He spent 35 years there as a staff member and served as associate medical director and associate director of anesthesia from 1980 to 2002. As president of the MAA from 2002 to 2004, Anton pushed to ensure that the organization embraced all UVM College of Medicine graduates, including Ph.D. alumni. He sat on the Medical Alumni Executive Committee from 1990 to 2004 – when he helped create the 21st Century Fund, which encouraged greater alumni support as a precursor to the COM Fund – and on the Medical Planned Giving Committee from 1999 to 2005.

In 1987, Anton and his mother, Evelyn Anton, established a memorial fund at the College of Medicine in honor of his father, Harry J. Anton, M.D.’40, as well as the Harry J. Anton classroom in the Larner Medical Education Center. The younger Anton made a significant contribution to the fund last year, in honor of his 45th reunion. In addition, he belongs to UVM’s Wilbur Society, which provides student scholarships.

Anton has served on numerous boards, including as president of the anesthesia section of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Massachusetts Society of Anesthesiologists and as a member of the board and speaker’s bureau of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Additional Medical Reunion 2015 award recipients, who were also recognized at the “Celebration of Achievements” event on June 12, include:

PUBLISHED

06-11-2015
Carolyn Shapiro