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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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  • UVM & Maine Partners Awarded $20 Million to Continue NNE-CTR Work
    August 11, 2022 by Jennifer Nachbur
    The Northern New England Clinical and Translational Research Network has received a $20 million-dollar renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue work to ensure residents in Vermont and Maine – and particularly the elderly, New American and Indigenous populations – receive greater support to address chronic and life-threatening diseases.
  • Larner First-Years Present MedQuest Program to Bennington County High Schoolers
    August 9, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 9, 2022) Five high school students from Bennington County recently completed a MedQuest 2.0 program designed and delivered by first-year medical students from the Robert Larner College of Medicine to gain a richer understanding of health careers available to them in Vermont.
    Read full story at Bennington Banner
  • Scholarly Summer: Second-Year Students' Research Explores Unmet Health Needs
    August 9, 2022 by Janet Franz
    For students pursuing a degree in medicine, there’s no off-season. During a two-month break between their first and second years, many Larner College of Medicine medical students tackled projects to address unmet health needs, practice clinical skills, and immerse themselves in specialty clerkships with physician preceptors.
  • Center on Rural Addiction Studies Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use in Maine
    August 5, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 5, 2022) A new survey by UVM’s Center on Rural Addiction — which is headed by Stacey Sigmon, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry — working with the University of Southern Maine’s Cutler Institute highlights challenges in access to medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorders in Maine’s rural areas.
    Read full story at Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine)
  • The Evolution of UVM's Emergency Medicine Department
    August 5, 2022 by Jennifer Nachbur
    Emergency medicine is relatively new; it began to take shape in the mid- to late-1960s, when the American Medical Association established an emergency medicine committee and the American College of Emergency Physicians was founded. However, it wasn’t until 1979 that the American Board of Medical Specialties finally recognized the field as a specialty.
  • Botten Lab Awarded Patents, Funds to Study RNA Viruses and Develop Novel Antiviral Strategies
    August 3, 2022 by Janet L. Essman Franz
    Jason Botten, Ph.D., professor of medicine and associate director of the Vermont Biomedical Research Network, received a University of Vermont SPARK-VT grant to help commercialize his work to develop broad-spectrum antiviral therapeutics, following a faculty pitch competition held in June 2022.
  • Althoff Named Chair and Health Care Leader of Psychiatry
    August 2, 2022 by Ed Neuert
    University of Vermont Associate Professor of Psychiatry Robert Althoff, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed chair of the Department of Psychiatry and health care service leader for psychiatry, effective August 1, 2022.
  • Lahey Interviewed by Vermont Public about Monkeypox
    August 1, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 1, 2022) After the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency and the first case of the virus was recently confirmed in Vermont, Tim Lahey, M.D., M.M.Sc., professor of medicine, spoke with Vermont Public about what we need to know about the virus, and who’s at highest risk.
  • Lounsbury Quoted in Social Work Today Article
    August 1, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 1, 2022) Karen Lounsbury, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and director of foundations and preclinical assessment, is quoted in an article in “Social Work Today” on integrating service delivery by medical or physical health providers, behavioral health providers, and social service providers.
  • Telegraph Quotes King on ‘Vermonters Taking Action Against Cancer’ Program
    July 31, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JULY 31, 2022) In response to statistics showing that lung cancer kills more Vermonters than breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers combined, family medicine professor John King, M.D., and colleagues at the UVM and Dartmouth Cancer Centers are spearheading a new community education program called Vermonters Taking Action Against Cancer, the (Nashua, N.H.) Telegraph reported.
    Read full story at The (Nashua, N.H.) Telegraph
  • The Cancer Letter Features Yates Reflecting on Starting UVM Cancer Center
    July 29, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JULY 29, 2022) Retired oncology professor Jerome Yates, M.D., spoke with Alexandria Carolan, a reporter with The Cancer Letter and associate editor of the Cancer History Project, about building a cancer center at the University of Vermont.
    Read full story at The Cancer Letter
  • Ehret Invested as Inaugural Asfaw Yemiru Green and Gold Professor in Global Health
    July 28, 2022 by Jennifer Nachbur and Christina Davenport
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics and neonatologist Danielle Ehret, M.D., M.P.H., was invested as the inaugural Asfaw Yemiru Green and Gold Professor in Global Health in a formal ceremony held at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine on July 28, 2022.
  • Diehl Comments to CT Insider on Yale’s Omicron-specific mRNA Vaccine
    July 28, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JULY 28, 2022) Sean Diehl, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, spoke with CT Insider about an Omicron-specific mRNA vaccine developed by Yale scientists that creates a strong antibody response against subvariants BA.1 and BA.2.12.1.
    Read full story at CT Insider
  • Gosselin Talks Monkeypox in CreakyJoints
    July 28, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JULY 28, 2022) Rheumatologist Jeanne Gosselin, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, spoke with CreakyJoints about what monkeypox is and what people who are immunocompromised because of an autoimmune or inflammatory health condition or taking immunosuppressant medication need to know.
    Read full story at CreakyJoints.org
  • MacAfee Comments to Seven Days on Misinformation by Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers
    July 27, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JULY 27, 2022) Lauren MacAfee, M.D., associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences, commented to Seven Days on “blatant misinformation” dispensed at certain innocuously labeled “pregnancy resource centers.”
    Read full story at Seven Days
  • Knowridge Reports on Plante Study of ‘Stiff-Heart’ Patients and Beta-Blockers
    July 27, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JULY 27, 2022) A recent study by Timothy Plante, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, and colleagues found that so-called stiff-heart heart failure accounts for about half of all cases; in addition, most stiff-heart patients take beta-blocker medications despite unclear benefits from their regular use, according to Knowridge Science Report.
    Read full story at Knowridge Science Report
  • Lahey Discusses Monkeypox Viral Transmission on Vermont Public
    July 27, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JULY 27, 2022) Professor of Medicine Tim Lahey, M.D., M.M.Sc., said in a story on Vermont Public that "it’s just a matter of time" before the monkeypox virus is found in the Green Mountain State.
  • Health Magazine Quotes Carney on Staying Safe in Extreme Heat
    July 27, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JULY 27, 2022) In this summer of increasingly dangerous and even record-breaking heat waves, Associate Dean for Public Health and Health Policy Jan Carney, M.D., M.P.H., offered potentially life-saving guidance on how to prepare for and adapt to extreme heat in an article in “Health” magazine.
  • Bruce Comments on COVID Infectiousness in Nature News Article
    July 26, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JULY 26, 2022) Emily Bruce, Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, was one of several experts interviewed for a news story in the journal “Nature” on what scientists know so far about COVID-19 infectiousness.
  • $100,000 gift from the UVM Medical Center Auxiliary, Inc. will support the Breast Cancer Integrative Oncology Program
    July 24, 2022 by Kate Strotmeyer