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  • Rinehart Warns Against Child Exposure to Edibles on WCAX-TV
    January 11, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JANUARY 11, 2023) In a piece broadcast on WCAX-TV on the increase of child exposure to edible cannabis over the past several years, Jill Rinehart, M.D., FAAP, associate professor of pediatrics, stressed the importance of parents locking up cannabis products at home to keep kids from accidentally ingesting it. (Click on headline for more.)
  • Medical Alum Helps Establish Much-Needed VT Child Psychiatry Access Program
    January 10, 2023 by Jennifer Nachbur
    Psychiatrist Greta Spottswood, M.D., M.P.H., a Class of 2011 alum of the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, directs and helped launch the Vermont Child Psychiatry Access Program to connect Vermont pediatric primary care providers with much-needed child psychiatry services.
  • Barkhuff Pens Commentary on ED Mental Health ‘Care’ in VT Digger
    January 9, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JANUARY 9, 2023) Daniel Barkhuff, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and a physician in the UVM Medical Center Emergency Department, shares some of the grueling challenges of his work environment in a candid opinion piece in VT Digger.
    Read full story at VT Digger
  • World Today News Notes Cushman Study on Blood Type AB and Dementia
    January 6, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JANUARY 6, 2023) A recent study led by Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc., professor of medicine and of pathology and laboratory medicine, found that people with blood type AB are 82 percent more likely to experience thinking and memory impairments that can lead to dementia, World Today News reported.
    Read full story at World Today News
  • Whitman Extolls Mindfulness in HealthyWomen Article
    January 4, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JANUARY 4, 2023) Susan Whitman, PA-C, NBC-HWC, a faculty member in the integrative health and wellness program at the University of Vermont, commented about mindfulness in an article in HealthyWomen about healthy habits.
    Read full story at HealthyWomen

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