Dr. Sean Muniz

Hometown: Tasmania, Australia

Medical School: University of Vermont College of Medicine

I was born in Tasmania, Australia to Brazilian parents. When I was 8 years old, my family moved to rural India. I lived there for 6 years in an international, intentional community with 2000 people from over 100 countries. While living in India, I was bitten by a viper and got a first-hand look at being a patient in a rural setting. I moved to Upstate NY when I was 15. 

After graduating high school, I started college for a history degree but dropped out to enter the workforce. In my late 20s, I went back to school to become a paramedic. I worked for a busy EMS system responding to 911 calls in urban, suburban, and rural settings. I moved to Vermont in 2015, working for a year as a 911 paramedic doing solely rural responses. In 2016, I started working as a critical care paramedic for the University of Vermont Health Network, transporting IC- level patients from critical access hospitals in Vermont and Upstate NY to tertiary care in Burlington, VT. Between this and my time as a rural 911 paramedic, I gained a deep appreciation for the difficulties of providing care to a dispersed rural population. 

I started medical school at the University of Vermont in 2019. My medical school curriculum included several rural-focused rotations, including 6 weeks during my family medicine rotation at a rural FQHC. I am most interested in critical care, including improving ICU-level care in rural settings.