Harvey J. Grill, Ph.D., presented the Annual Stetson Lecture in Technological Advances in Medicine on Friday, September 14, 2018 in the UVM Davis Center’s Silver Maple Ballroom. Grill, a professor of behavioral neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Obesity Unit at the Institute of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, discussed “Treating the Hyperphagia Driving Obesity: Neural Mechanisms of Feeding Inhibition.”

Although malnutrition is a serious concern associated with adverse outcomes and cost, no single existing approach to malnutrition diagnosis has achieved broad global acceptance. Now, thanks to more than two years’ work by members of the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) working group, a consensus report, which outlines five criteria for malnutrition, has just been published in the latest issue of both the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and Clinical Nutrition.

(SEPTEMBER 4, 2018) This summer, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine medical student Hanaa Shihadeh '21 had a chance to see her native country of Jordan through a different set of eyes - those of a Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) volunteer.

Helene Langevin, M.D., C.M., a visiting professor of neurological sciences at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, has been named director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.

The United States Department of Defense published an online article about Arti Shukla's, Ph.D., UVM associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, research study regarding the role of exosomes in the development of mesothelioma.