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  • Dumas and Vanderbilt Colleagues’ Study Examines Menopause and Alzheimer’s Disease
    April 6, 2020 by Jennifer Nachbur
    ​Do the cognitive changes that sometimes occur at menopause relate to an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease? That’s what a newly launched study, co-led by University of Vermont Associate Professor of Psychiatry Julie Dumas, Ph.D., aims to determine.
  • Med Student Danis Discusses COVID-19 Volunteering on NBC10 Boston/NECN
    April 1, 2020 by Lila Sullivan
    (APRIL 1, 2020) Larner College of Medicine Class of '21 medical student and Essex EMT Hilary Danis was featured in an NBC10 Boston/New England Cable News (NECN) story on Vermont Governor Phil Scott's call for help in supporting the state's health care workforce during the COVID-19 emergency. In the interview, Danis says "I think each and every one of us can serve our part."
  • Important COVID-19 Update From Dean Page
    April 3, 2020 by Dean Richard L. Page
  • New UVM-developed App Could Help Panic Attack Sufferers During Coronavirus Pandemic
    April 2, 2020 by Jeffrey R. Wakefield
    A new app developed by UVM faculty called PanicMechanic, may be a resource for panic attack sufferers facing new anxieties in light of the COVID-19 crisis. The app, which adapts biofeedback-like monitoring so it can be used on a mobile phone, works at any time and in any location, and is the first technology to do so for panic.
  • Global Health is Local Health: Larner Alum at the Frontlines
    April 2, 2020 by Erin Post
    As president and CEO of a Delaware organization that includes major health systems and research universities, UVM medical alum and family physician Omar Khan, M.D. ’03, is at the frontlines of the COVID-19 response. He and his team are working to ramp up testing and treatment, source PPE for healthcare workers, and keep the community informed.

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