Office of Medical Communications

(DECEMBER 11, 2023) Rebecca Bell, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of pediatrics, was interviewed by Vermont Public for a Vermont Edition story on keeping kids safe from firearms.

Debora Kamin Mukaz, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, was recognized by the United Negro College Fund Ernest E. Just Life Sciences Society at at an event held September 17 at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., for her work with Black in Cardio.

The University of Vermont's Student National Medical Association chapter held its first conference ever this November, bringing more than 100 medical and pre-medical students from throughout New England to the campus of the Larner College of Medicine to share their enthusiasm for ensuring that people from populations underrepresented in medical professions feel empowered to pursue medical careers.

A Public Health Project conducted by a group of Larner College of Medicine Class of 2025 medical students was selected by the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Physician Professional Advisory Committee to receive a 2023 Excellence in Public Health Award.

Autoimmune disease is frequent in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes, but studies have been inconclusive about how the preexistence of autoimmunity affects survival in these patients. A new study by UVM Cancer Center member Diego Adrianzen Herrera, M.D. uses an epidemiologic analysis to clarify that issue.

(NOVEMBER 30, 2023) Janet Nunziata, M.S., associate director of the Center on Aging at the University of Vermont, commented to the Vermont Standard for a story about an increase in the number of retirees who are stepping into the world of lectures, homework, and study groups.

(NOVEMBER 26, 2023) Richard Rawson ’70, Ph.D.’74, professor of psychiatry and a national authority on substance use and behavioral health, told VT Digger he has been trying to raise awareness of the involvement of stimulants in the overdose crisis.

(November 22, 2023) Associate Professor of Pediatrics Erica Gibson, M.D., and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine Anja Jokela, M.D., commented to Seven Days for an article on transgender newcomers finding safety, services, and community in Vermont.

(NOVEMBER 21, 2023) Allyson Bazarsky, M.D., assistant professor of neurological sciences, was mentioned in an MDedge article on the 2023 Scottsdale Headache Symposium.

(NOVEMBER 17, 2023) In an opinion piece published in VT Digger, infectious disease specialist Lindsay Smith, M.D., and infectious disease pharmacist John Ahern, Pharm.D., warned that antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem everywhere.

(NOVEMBER 16, 2023) Kelly Peck, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and director of clinical operations at UVM’s Center on Rural Addiction, commented for a story in the South Carolina Daily Gazette about how synthetic drugs are rendering treatment options less effective.

(NOVEMBER 16, 2023) Scott Tighe, technical director for the Advanced Genome Technologies Core, along with Julie Dragon, Ph.D., and Kirsten Tracy, Ph.D., were featured on WCAX-TV in a story about their µTitan project, which was launched into space on November 9.

(November 15, 2023) The UVMHN’s communications department is spearheading a public awareness campaign to address an alarming escalation in workplace violence aimed at health care providers, Seven Days reports.

(November 13, 2023) A new study by Eric Ross, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, and colleagues found no benefit from hospitalization for some suicidal veterans, U.S. Medicine reported.

Most children are exposed to adversity by the time they reach adulthood, but a portion of children stay free of mental illness despite trying circumstances. A recent study led by Professor of Psychiatry William Copeland, Ph.D., and supported by UVM researchers, challenges the notion that childhood resilience is common and explores possible solutions to this crisis via public health initiatives.

(NOVEMBER 10, 2023) Daniel Wolfson, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine, commented to WCAX-TV for a story on a pre-pandemic addiction treatment program that embedded peer recovery coaches in the UVM Medical Center emergency department—now it’s back, after an extended pandemic pause.

(NOVEMBER 10, 2023) A lyophilized whole-cell mix of 10 bacterial species customized by Scott Tighe, technical director at the University of Vermont’s advanced genomics lab, and colleagues, was sent to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX CRS-29 Cargo Dragon Resupply Craft mission on November 9.

(NOVEMBER 9, 2023) Thanks to a grant from the University of Vermont’s Center on Rural Addiction (CORA), the Johnson Health Center has a vending machine that dispenses free boxes of the life-saving overdose reversal drug naloxone—the first of its kind in the state—the (Whitesburg, Kentucky) Daily Yonder reports.