“JBH and Burlington have provided me with caring and supportive collaborators in demonstrating the kind of innovation that makes access to high quality care possible,” he says. “To me, volunteering is an essential part of that, and an essential part of each of us making our contribution to the world.  We are all at our best when we are giving – giving of our time, our energy, our expertise, and our other resources.”

For Dr. Selchen, his time on the board was a unique and extraordinary opportunity to both learn and share how essential the Foundation is to being able to provide the kind of care hospitals provide.

“Many people think that because we live in a country with a publically funded healthcare system, everything is simply provided for by government,” he says. “In fact, very little of the extraordinary care JBH provides could be possible without the generous and vigorous support of our community through the Foundation.”

For Dr. Selchen, volunteering with the Foundation has allowed him to lead by example, to participate in the giving, to work along side passionate and dedicated volunteers and supporters, to learn from the extraordinary Foundation staff and network of generous supporters, and to help realize our vision of access to high quality care.

And how does he balance his clinical, professional and family responsibilities with his time volunteering?

“Volunteering in this way hasn’t come at the expense of my professional responsibilities or family duties – it invigorates them both,” he says. “One of my fondest memories is standing in the rain with my three children, and thousands of members of our community, at a JBH Foundation event, all of us in orange ponchos, as we tried to set a record for the largest letter J made out of people.”