Recent News

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  • Sadighs’ Global Health Commentary Featured in AAMC News
    March 8, 2017 by Kate Skinas
    A commentary on the benefits of global health electives for medical students, coauthored by Majid Sadigh, M.D., director of the Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) and UVM Larner College of Medicine’s Global Health Program, and Mitra Sadigh, was featured as a “Viewpoint” in the Association of American Medical College’s AAMC News.
  • Member Highlight: Long Tran, M.D.
    March 6, 2017 by Mitra Sadigh
    Dr. Long is a neurosurgeon at Cho Ray Hospital who recently completed three months of observership training in the ICU at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut.
  • Member Highlights: Michelle Mertz, M.D.
    March 6, 2017 by Mitra Sadigh
    Dr. Mertz, core faculty in Family Medicine at UVM and member of the UVM Global Health Leadership Team, discovered global health by following her own curiosity.
  • Novel Dimensional Approach Uncovers Biomarker for Inattention
    March 6, 2017 by Jennifer Nachbur
    Despite diagnoses for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) occurring in a reported 11 percent of U.S. school-aged kids, clinicians still don’t fully understand the underlying causes of this common condition. Now a brain marker may be on the horizon, thanks to a new approach that provides evidence of a relationship between brain structure and dimensional measures of ADHD symptoms.
  • Global Health Elective Underway
    March 6, 2017 by Mitra Sadigh
    A total of thirteen students and five medical residents completed global health electives abroad in Uganda, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe in the month of February. Among those in Uganda were UVM psychiatry residents Dr. Megan Gething and Dr. Molly Rovin, who paved the way for a new partnership in psychiatry between UVM and Makerere College of Health Sciences.

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