John C. Macy MD, MHCDS is Chairman, Dept of Surgery and Chief of Mansfield Orthopedics at Copley Hospital, Morrisville, VT. Dr. Macy specializes in treating disorders and injuries of the shoulder, including arthritis, instability, rotator cuff tears and shoulder replacement surgery. He received his Masters in Health Care Delivery Science at the Amos Tuck School of Business/TDI, Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. More recently, he completed the Physician Executive Leadership Institute sponsored by the Vermont Medical Society Education and Research Foundation. He is a design surgeon for Shoulder Innovations, a comprehensive shoulder replacement system focusing on InSetTM  technology that allows for improved bone fixation with minimally invasive, bone-sparring novel techniques. He also serves on many local and regional committees, including the Medical Executive Committee at Copley and the General Advisory Committee for the Green Mountain Care Board.

Dr. Macy has been a member of the American Shoulder & Elbow Society for 15 years, is a founding member of the New England Shoulder & Elbow Society, member of the Codman Shoulder Society and the immediate past-president of the Vermont Orthopedic Society. He is also a Fellow of the American Association of Orthopedic Surgery and Arthroscopy Association of North America. A graduate of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, Dr. Macy performed his internship and residency at the University of Vermont – Fletcher Allen Health Care and completed the Transcontinental Shoulder Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Balgrist Klinic in Zurich, Switzerland. He has written several peer-reviewed scientific articles, reviewed articles for several journals, given many local, national and international presentations and is involved with ongoing research focusing on patient reported outcomes following shoulder surgery. He currently serves as a U.S. Ski Team physician, traveling internationally with the USSA Teams and works locally with the National Ski Patrol at Jay Peak, VT and as a volunteer physician at Three Peaks Medical Clinic, Sugarbush, VT. Dr Macy is also the Medical Director for VLCT and VSBIT, dedicated to improving the quality of care of employees with work-related injuries. When not in the clinic or operating room, he enjoys the great outdoors, most notably mountain biking and back-country skiing.  Dr. Macy and his family live in Shelburne, VT.