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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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  • Pediatric Allergy Specialist Jaffe Discusses New NIAID Peanut Guidelines
    January 18, 2017 by Jennifer Nachbur
    On January 5, 2016, an expert panel sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, issued clinical guidelines to aid health care providers in early introduction of peanut-containing foods to infants to prevent the development of peanut allergy.
  • Jensen Presents VCBH Lecture on Overweight & Obesity
    January 18, 2017 by Jennifer Nachbur
    The Vermont Center on Behavior and Health's January lecture featured Gordon L. Jensen, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Medicine and Nutrition at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont.
  • Cushman Named Editor-in-Chief of New International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis-Wiley Journal
    January 12, 2017 by Jennifer Nachbur
    On January 10, 2017, the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), in partnership with John Wiley and Sons, Inc., announced the launch of the Society’s new open access journal, Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis (RPTH), with its inaugural issue to publish in conjunction with the meeting of the ISTH 2017 Congress in Berlin, Germany, which will take place July 8 to 13, 2017.
  • Teaching Academy Inducts New Members at Snow Season Education Retreat
    January 12, 2017 by Jennifer Nachbur
    The newest members of the Teaching Academy at The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at The University of Vermont were inducted during a ceremony and dinner held January 5, 2017 that kicked off the Snow Season Education Retreat at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center.
  • Levine Appointed Vermont Commissioner of Health by Governor Phil Scott
    January 5, 2017 by Jennifer Nachbur
    On Wednesday, January 4, 2017, Vermont Governor Phil Scott announced the appointment of Mark Levine, M.D., professor of medicine and associate dean for graduate medical education at the Larner College of Medicine at UVM, as Vermont's new Commissioner of Health.
  • On the Blog: Magier ’18 Discusses UVM Performance Improvement Collaborative
    January 5, 2017 by Samantha Magier
    Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States — as rising physicians, we can improve this statistic. In order to effect change as the next generation of healthcare providers, we must be equipped with the necessary resources.
  • Dixon among 2016 UVM Medical Group Excellence in Education and Research Awardees
    January 3, 2017 by Mindy Clawson
    The 2016 University of Vermont (UVM) Medical Group awards for excellence in education and research – along with grants funding research in medicine and medical education – were presented at the practice’s annual holiday reception on December 13, 2016.
  • Holmes Discusses Using Genetics to Predict Clot Risk
    January 3, 2017 by Michael Carrese
    Among the side effects experienced by cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy is a higher risk of blood clots, but determining which patients are most likely to get them is a challenge for physicians.
  • Sigmon Reports on Study of Waitlisted Opioid-Dependent Adults in NEJM
    January 3, 2017 by Jennifer Nachbur
    In rural states like Vermont, opioid-dependent adults desperate for treatment often find themselves stuck on a wait list, sometimes for eight months or more, increasing their risk of continuing to use illicit opioids, contract an infectious disease, overdose and prematurely die.
  • Janssen-Heininger Receives Inaugural NHLBI Outstanding Investigator Award
    December 21, 2016 by Jennifer Nachbur
    Antioxidant therapies may hold promise for the nearly 25 million Americans suffering from asthma, and additional 140,000 people diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, but to date, determining exactly how to modify them into a feasible treatment has proved challenging.
  • College Holds Investiture of First Philip Ades, M.D. Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
    December 16, 2016 by Jennifer Nachbur
    University of Vermont President Tom Sullivan and Larner College of Medicine Dean Frederick Morin, M.D., invested Philip Ades, M.D., professor of medicine and director of cardiac rehabilitation and preventive medicine, as the inaugural Philip Ades, M.D. Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention December 16, 2016. The ceremony, hosted by the UVM Foundation, took place in the Hoehl Gallery in the Health Science Research Facility.
  • Meet a Scientist: Colgate Examines Rotavirus Vaccine Efficacy in Non-U.S. Countries
    December 16, 2016 by Erin Post
    UVM Vaccine Testing Center researcher E. Ross Colgate, M.P.H., spent two years working in Bangladesh trying to understand why a rotavirus vaccine that prevents the majority of cases in the U.S. works only 40 to 60 percent of the time in Bangladeshi infants. Finding an answer could save hundreds of thousands of lives given rotavirus’ status as the leading cause of diarrhea in young children worldwide, among whom diarrhea is the second leading cause of death.
  • Tracy to Play Role in NIH Study of Molecular Changes during Physical Activity
    December 16, 2016 by Jennifer Nachbur
    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund has announced the first awards for its Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity in Humans Program, which will allow researchers to develop a comprehensive map of the molecular changes that occur in response to physical activity and uncover findings that could lead to people engaging in more targeted and optimized types of activity.
  • AAP Hosts Screening of “Resilience” Film and Panel Discussion on Toxic Stress in Children on Dec. 14
    December 12, 2016 by Jennifer Nachbur
    Medical students from The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at The University of Vermont and UVM Medical Center residents are hosting a screening of the film “Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope” on Wednesday, December 14, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. in Davis Auditorium.
  • Noonan Discusses Jeffords Institute's 10 years of Support for Quality Improvement
    December 12, 2016 by Eleanor Osborne
    This Q&A with Anna Noonan, R.N., vice president of quality and operational effectiveness at the Jeffords Institute for Quality at the University of Vermont Medical Center, was originally published in the November 2016 issue of One.
  • Meet a Scientist: Chris Bernard '19
    December 9, 2016 by Erin Post
    How do you carefully remove all of the cells from a lung, and then repopulate that ‘scaffold’ with stem cells from a new host? As a summer research fellow in the lab of Professor of Medicine Daniel Weiss, M.D., Ph.D., medical student Chris Bernard ‘19 spent several months testing and re-testing processes and procedures, inching ever closer to an answer to that question.
  • Making a Difference
    December 7, 2016 by Medical Communications
    Student are fanning out across the globe to learn about the practice of medicine in a variety of countries, including Vietnam, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Dominican Republic, and Russia, via the UVM College of Medicine Western Connecticut Health Network Global Health Program.
  • The Storm's Wake
    December 7, 2016 by John "Bull" Durham
    Last week was my 23rd or 24th trip. Since the earthquake, this was the most moving of my experiences working as a volunteer orthopedic surgeon in Haiti. This trip to Haiti after Hurricane Matthew was a short one and scheduled only to care for some upper extremity injuries that made it to Port-au-Prince from the southern peninsula where over 500 people died and tens of thousands have been left homeless.
  • Boyd Invested as Inaugural Hamill Green & Gold Professor of Neurological Sciences
    December 7, 2016 by Jennifer Nachbur
    The University of Vermont Foundation hosted a special Investiture ceremony for an inaugural endowed position – the Robert W. Hamill, M.D. Green & Gold Professor in Neurological Sciences at the Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine – on December 6 in the Hoehl Gallery in the Health Science Research Facility. UVM President Tom Sullivan and Larner College of Medicine Dean Frederick Morin, M.D., presented James Boyd, M.D., associate professor of neurological sciences, as the first Hamill Green & Gold Professor at the event.
  • Sadigh Named Inaugural Trefz Family Global Health Endowed Chair at Western CT Health Network
    December 7, 2016 by Jennifer Nachbur
    A personal experience with human suffering as a child in war-torn Iran instilled a passion for caring for people in Majid Sadigh, M.D., who knew at a very young age he wanted to become a physician. In the 32 years since he came to the U.S. as a refugee, the associate professor of medicine at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and UVM/Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) Global Health Program director has become an internationally recognized global health expert and humanitarian, impacting countless lives in resource-poor countries across the globe.