Dr. Mary Bender, a board-certified pediatrician, is now practicing at Mt. Ascutney Hospital. A graduate of Boston University School of Medicine, she completed residency and chief residency at Tufts/NE Medical Center in Boston. She worked in private practice and later was an in-house Physician in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Dr. Bender is a certified lactation consultant, and has special interests in family health promotion and adolescence.