Dr. Cristine Maloney Heads
To Yale for Residency

Cristine Maloney of Randolph received her Doctor of Medicine degree from University of Vermont’s College of Medicine, at commencement ceremonies May 20.

Next for Maloney is a three-year residency through Yale University, in primary care/internal medicine. She will work at two hospitals in the New Haven, Conn., area.

Maloney plans to keep her Randolph home and hopes to return here, she said.

A Bristol native, Maloney came to Randolph in 1996, as an AmeriCorps volunteer, working on housing issues with the Randolph Area Community Development Corp.

RACDC then hired her its housing director, a position Maloney held until 2002, when she entered medical school.

"It was definitely harder than I ever would have imagined," said Maloney of her medical studies.

However, she credited UVM with being very supportive of her and other "non-traditional" medical school students.

She noted that UVM "let me start again" when she encountered a problem that resulted in her putting her studies on hold.

"I think no other school would have let me do that," she said.

A long-time runner, Maloney managed to continue running 20-40 miles per week, during her five years at UVM.

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