Office of Medical Communications

(FEBRUARY 16, 2023) Ellen McGinnis, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and one of the creators - with Ryan McGinnis, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical and biomedical engineering - of PanicMechanic, an app that coaches individuals through panic attacks, spoke with WCAX-TV about a new study that aims to help prepare for, intervene with, and even prevent panic attacks.

(FEBRUARY 15, 2023) Pediatric psychiatrist Sarah Guth, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, was interviewed on WCAX-TV for a story on postpartum depression (which medical professionals now call “perinatal mood and anxiety disorder”).

(FEBRUARY 15, 2023) Christian Pulcini, M.D., M.Ed., M.P.H., assistant professor of emergency medicine, and Rebecca Bell, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, commented to NBC5 in response to news that thousands of free gun locks will soon be available to the public across the state.

(FEBRUARY 14, 2023) Andrea Grayson, Ed.D., M.A., assistant professor of public health at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine, was quoted in an article in Country Folks offering farmers practical strategies for de-escalating stressful situations.

(FEBRUARY 14, 2023) In an opinion piece published in VTDigger, psychiatry resident Nat Mulkey, M.D., clinical instructor of psychiatry, discusses his feelings of sadness, defensiveness, and discomfort at the negative portrayals of the local health care system in the news and elsewhere.

Sherrie Khadanga, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of medicine at UVM's Larner College of Medicine and assistant director of cardiac rehabilitation at the UVM Medical Center, was recently featured in a UVM Health Network HealthSource blog post titled "Women Find Strength with Cardiac Rehab" that focused on how High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) exercise can help women's recovery after a cardiac event.

(FEBRUARY 11, 2023) UVM’s Center on Rural Addiction is donating “NaloxBoxes” containing doses of the opioid reversal drug naloxone throughout the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire, according to New Hampshire Public Radio.

(FEBRUARY 11, 2023) Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc., professor of medicine and director of the thrombosis and hemostasis program at the UVM Medical Center, recently spoke with The American Journal of Managed Care about racial trends in pulmonary embolism treatment and potential improvements compared with pre-pandemic trends.

(FEBRUARY 10, 2023) Eric Ross, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, shared “oddities” in two studies of antidepressant therapies by a team of researchers in Egypt with the journals that had published the studies. Now, almost a year later, one paper has been pulled and the other is still under review.

(FEBRUARY 9, 2023) Jeremiah Dickerson, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, spoke to ABC22 about how stressful situations like school threats and lockdowns can impact emotional, behavioral, and even physical health.

(FEBRUARY 9, 2023) Anne Dixon, M.A., B.M.B.Ch., professor of medicine, commented to The (Lowell, Massachusetts) Sun about a new study led by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health that found that a healthy lifestyle could lower the risk of long COVID.

(FEBRUARY 9, 2023) Erica Gibson, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics and division chief of adolescent medicine, and OBGYN resident Mackenzie Delzer, M.D., commented to NBC5 on a bill that would make reproductive procedures and gender-affirming services legally protected in Vermont.

(FEBRUARY 8, 2023) A randomized trial conducted by nephrologist Richard Solomon, M.D., professor of medicine, and colleagues found that a machine-learning intervention provided a higher level of safety during cardiac catheterization, lowering the chances of acute kidney injury (AKI), according to Health IT Analytics.

(FEBRUARY 7, 2023) Results of a study by Margaret Infeld, M.D., clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellow and clinical instructor in the Department of Medicine; cardiologist Markus Meyer, M.D., Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of medicine; and colleagues support heart rate modulation as a therapeutic intervention in HFpEF, according to HealthDay News.

Funding Announcement: To encourage and support early-stage, independent investigators in developing high quality and competitive cardiovascular research programs. Investigation must be related to cardiovascular diseases and can be basic, clinical, translational, epidemiologic or public health-related, and includes stroke.

In this commentary, Larner College of Medicine Associate Dean for Public Health and Health Policy Jan Carney, M.D., M.P.H., discusses the impact and potential solutions to address the issue of medical misinformation.

Fanny Asmussen, an International visiting medical student from Aarhus University in Denmark, will also be visiting from March – May 2023 to conduct research with Thomas Ahern, PhD as her faculty mentor. The project title is “Infection and risk of breast cancer recurrence: A Danish nationwide case-control study.”

Elisabeth Solmunde, an International visiting medical student from Aarhus University in Denmark, Departments of Epidemiology and Clinical Medicine, conducted research with Thomas Ahern, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgical Research as her faculty mentor.

Many congratulations to Somen Mistri, PhD of the Boyson Lab who successfully defended his PhD in Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences in December 2022!