Community

The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at the University of Vermont has a remarkable community that provides ample opportunities to connect with fellow graduate students, postdocs, staff, and faculty. Offerings include workshops, conferences, events and seminars to bring together the perspectives of our diverse specialties. It is important to share your voice and feel heard as well as get involved with our Larner Community. 

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  • Schlozman Talks Fun vs. Fear with WCAX-TV
    October 31, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (OCTOBER 31, 2023) Steven Schlozman, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, spoke with WCAX-TV about what parents should know about fun vs. fear when it comes to trick-or-treating—and scary things in general.
    Read full story at WCAX-TV
  • Dr. First Discusses Halloween Safety with ABC22
    October 29, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (OCTOBER 29, 2023) Lewis First, M.D., M.S., professor and chair of pediatrics at Larner College of Medicine and chief of pediatrics at the UVM Medical Center, was interviewed by ABC22 for a story on trick or treating. Inclusivity—for kids with allergies or special needs—is one consideration health experts are highlighting.
    Read full story at WJCL-TV ABC22
  • Vieth Featured in WCAX Interview on Violence Against Frontline Health Care Staff
    October 27, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (OCTOBER 27, 2023) Julie Vieth, M.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine and assistant medical director of the Emergency Department at the University of Vermont Medical Center, was featured in a story on WCAX-TV about a UVM Health Network project spotlighting violence against frontline health care staff.
    Read full story at WCAX-TV
  • Hehir Featured on Medscape’s Myasthenia Gravis Podcast
    October 24, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (OCTOBER 24, 2023) Michael Hehir, M.D., professor of neurological sciences, spoke to Nicholas Silvestri, M.D., host of Medscape’s In Discussion: Myasthenia Gravis podcast, in an episode titled “Managing Myasthenia Gravis in Primary Care: Best Practices.”
    Read full story at Medscape’s In Discussion: Myasthenia Gravis podcast
  • 2023 VCCBH Pilot Grant Award Recipients
    October 24, 2023 by Vermont Center of Cardiovascular and Brain Health
    These awards, supported wholly by funds from UVM entities, provide $200,000 over 2 years to fund meritorious research from early career faculty. We are very grateful to Deans from the Colleges of Medicine, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Nursing & Health Sciences, Arts & Sciences, Engineering & Mathematical Sciences, LCOM Deans Office, and the Graduate College, as well as the Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont, for their support of this program. In addition, we would like to acknowledge matching fund support from the Departments of Pharmacology and Neurological Sciences.
  • New York Times Features UVMMC Emergency Department Video by Kielman and Mercer
    October 24, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (OCTOBER 24, 2023) A powerful video on violence in the Emergency Department at the University of Vermont Medical Center by Roland Kielman and Ryan Mercer, communications specialists with the University of Vermont Health Network, with text by Helen Ouyang, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor at Columbia University, was featured in the New York Times Opinion section.
    Read full story at New York Times
  • Ziller Appointed Director of Health Services Research Center
    October 3, 2023 by Angela Ferrante
  • Cummings Interviewed by VT Digger about New Approach for Mental Health Urgent Care
    October 20, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (OCTOBER 20, 2023) Rachel Lee Cummings, M.P.H.’20, executive director of Counseling Service of Addison County, spoke to VT Digger about a new “living room” model of mental health urgent care that aims to reroute as many people as possible from the emergency room and link them directly to organizations that provide counseling and psychiatric services.
    Read full story at VTDigger
  • Diego Adrianzen Herrera, MD Appointed Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    October 19, 2023 by Kate Strotmeyer
  • Lyme Disease Prevention Vaccine Clinical Trial Launches in Vermont
    October 17, 2023 by Janet Essman Franz
    There are currently no approved vaccines available to prevent Lyme disease in humans, but one may be on the way. UVM’s Vaccine Testing Center recently launched a clinical study to investigate the efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of a Lyme disease vaccine.
  • George Contributes to Physician’s Weekly Article on Med Students’ Preparation for Residency
    October 16, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (OCTOBER 16, 2023) Karen George, M.D., M.P.H., associate dean for students at the Larner College of Medicine, contributed to a Physician’s Weekly article on what residents and program directors think is needed for a successful transition to residency.
    Read full story at Physician’s Weekly
  • Lester-Coll Quoted in Renal & Urology News Article on SBRT to Treat Prostate Cancer
    October 16, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (OCTOBER 16, 2023) Nataniel Lester-Coll, M.D., assistant professor of radiation oncology at the University of Vermont Medical Center, commented to Renal & Urology News about a study of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) as a treatment for prostate cancer.
    Read full story at Renal & Urology News
  • UVMCC partners with Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation
    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.
  • Newest Medical Students Receive White Coats
    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.
  • WCAX Covers White Coat Ceremony, Kickoff of UVM Medical Students’ Journey to Clinical Practice
    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.”
    Read full story at WCAX-TV
  • WCAX Highlights Whitaker’s $2M Grant to Study Anesthesia-Induced Hypotension
    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.
    Read full story at WCAX-TV
  • UVM Professor Receives $1.3M Grant for Trauma Research
    October 10, 2023 by Angela Ferrante
  • Freeman Participating in New $12.1 Million Trauma Research with UPMC
    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.
    Read full story at Inside Life Changing Medicine
  • 2022 Rising Star Visiting Professor: Kellie Machlus, PhD
    April 30, 2023 by Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont
  • 2023 Norman R. Alpert Visiting Professor: James Spudich, PhD
    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".