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  • Rawson Facilitates the Implementation of Contingency Management
    July 22, 2025 by Christopher Pung
    Contingency management (CM) for the treatment of individuals addicted to cocaine and methamphetamine is an approach that was developed at UVM in the early 1990s (Higgins et al, 1991). Over the next 30+ years, researchers at UVM, led by Steve Higgins, including Stacey Sigmon, Sarah Heil and many others have produced a body of research establishing CM as the only treatment with robust evidence for treating individuals with stimulant use disorder. Richard Rawson, PhD, details the expansion of the use of CM in the linked article from the Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network.
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  • Klemperer Recognized For Nicotine and Tobacco Research
    February 21, 2025 by Christopher Pung
    Elias Klemperer, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Director of the Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, and a UVM Cancer Center member, talks about his research, which earned him the prestigious 2025 Jarvik-Russell Early Career Award for extraordinary contributions to the field of nicotine and tobacco research. The award is from the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) -- the flagship professional organization for researchers in his field.
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  • Love at Larner
    February 14, 2025 by Margie Brenner
    Love is more than a matter of the heart, according to research on the neurobiology of relationships, the roles of hormones in pair-bonding, and the effects of sensory information in partner selection. Science aside, five couples—Karena and Tin, Audree and Tanner, Chellie and Tyler, Jonathan and Marissa, and Delia and Tobey—share their stories of Love at Larner.
  • Humanities and Medicine
    February 11, 2025 by Steven C. Schlozman, M.D., and Nathalie Feldman, M.D.
    What do we mean when we refer to the humanities, especially with regard to the practice of medicine? Put simply, medical humanities focus on what it means, literally, to be human. To this end, physicians benefit from skilled attention to literature, poetry, philosophy, history, ethics, art, artistic performance, and even the social sciences.
  • Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine Retiring in March, Vermont Public Reports
    February 7, 2025 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (FEBRUARY 7, 2025) Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine, M.D., professor of medicine and associate dean for graduate medical education, is retiring from his role leading the Vermont Department of Health, effective at the end of March, Vermont Public reports.
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