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October 16, 2023 by
Kate Strotmeyer
To reduce barriers to skin cancer screening, the University of Vermont Cancer Center works with the UVM Cancer Center’s community advisory board member, Chief Donald Stevens, tribal leader for the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation to bring skin checks out to communities in Vermont.
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October 13, 2023 by
Janet Essman Franz
Class of 2027 medical students received their first white coats on October 13 in a special ceremony at Ira Allen Chapel. The students hail from throughout the nation and around the world, and each has a unique story of what brought them to study medicine. Meet some of UVM's newest future doctors.
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October 13, 2023 by
Lucy Gardner Carson
(OCTOBER 13, 2023) WCAX-TV covered the Larner College of Medicine’s annual White Coat Ceremony, in which the newest class of medical students don their symbolic white coats for the first time. Larner Dean Richard L. Page, M.D., led students in reciting The Oath, which reads in part, “I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist's drug.”
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October 12, 2023 by
Lucy Gardner Carson
(OCTOBER 12, 2023) WCAX-TV reports that Emmett Whitaker, M.D., FAAP, associate professor of anesthesiology, neurological sciences, and pediatrics at the Larner College of Medicine, has been granted a $1.95 million award to study anesthesia-induced hypotension in neonates, infants, and older adults.
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October 10, 2023 by
Angela Ferrante
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October 9, 2023 by
Lucy Gardner Carson
(OCTOBER 9, 2023) Kalev Freeman, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine, is part of a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) research team working on a new $12.1 million trauma research program, UPMC’s Inside Life Changing Medicine reports.
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April 30, 2023 by
Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont
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May 30, 2023 by
Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont
2023 Norman R. Alpert Visiting Professor: James Spudich, PhD joins the Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont for career development seminar and Medicine Grand Rounds program "Myosin, The Exquisite Nanomachine: Basic Mechanisms to Therapies".
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May 15, 2023 by
Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont
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October 2, 2023 by
Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont
The Jim Ray Memorial Heart Ride embarks on its 23rd annual ride while continuing to support the CVRI research and education and honoring family members impacted by heart disease and stroke.
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October 9, 2023 by
Angela Ferrante
UVM and icddr,b the first to study a promising dengue vaccine in dengue-endemic Bangladesh
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October 2, 2023 by
Lucy Gardner Carson
(OCTOBER 2, 2023) Randall Holcombe, M.D., M.B.A., director of the UVM Cancer Center, commented to WCAX about the annual Women’s Health and Cancer Conference held at UVM on September 29.
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September 30, 2023 by
Lucy Gardner Carson
(SEPTEMBER 30, 2023) The Vaccine Testing Center, led by Beth Kirkpatrick, M.D., is working with the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh on a promising tetravalent dengue vaccine in Bangladesh, according to The Daily Star (Dhaka, Banglasdesh).
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September 28, 2023 by
Lucy Gardner Carson
(SEPTEMBER 28, 2023) Rachel Garfield, Ph.D., M.H.S., executive director of the Vermont Child Health Improvement Plan, spoke to WCAX-TV about a new report outlining steps to address a shortage of pediatric specialists.
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September 27, 2023 by
Janet Essman Franz
Katharine Cheung, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, assumed the role of Interim Director of the Center on Aging, effective September 1. A geriatric and palliative nephrologist, Cheung served on the center’s advisory board from 2017-2023. As interim director, Cheung's top priorities include relaunching pilot grants for faculty who are interested in pursuing research focused on gerontology or geriatric issues.
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September 27, 2023 by
Lucy Gardner Carson
(SEPTEMBER 27, 2023) Erin Manogaran, a first-year medical student at the Larner College of Medicine, has received a $10,000 Student Fellow Scholarship Award from EverythingALS, a citizen science research organization dedicated to developing a cure for the progressive neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, according to GlobeNewswire.
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September 25, 2023 by
Jeff Wakefield
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September 25, 2023 by
Lucy Gardner Carson
(SEPTEMBER 25, 2023) Mariah McNamara, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of emergency medicine at Larner and medical director of emergency medicine at the UVM Medical Center, commented to WCAX-TV about dispensing more Narcan to the community.
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September 22, 2023 by
Angela Ferrante
Andra Stevenson, Ph.D.’01, Returns to UVM to Share Insights on Mentorship and Career Journey
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September 22, 2023 by
Janet Essman Franz
Aspiring medical students from populations underrepresented in medicine visited UVM for Look at Larner, a medical student-led event that offers aspiring students a glimpse of medical school. Activities include lessons in the anatomy lab, clinical simulations, campus tours and admissions advice.