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Call for Proposals: 2024 Health Equity Summit

Discover and share exciting initiatives at the third annual Health Equity Summit, Building Solidarity: Sustainable Pathways Towards Health Equity. The Summit is a collaboration between community members, healthcare providers and educators to dismantle institutional barriers to health and enhance patient experiences.

Details

Dates: Monday, October 7, 4 - 6 pm: Poster presentations and kickoff reception

Tuesday, October 8, 8 am - 5 pm: Workshops and sessions

Location: Double Tree Hotel, 870 Williston Road, South Burlington, VT 05403 (Google Maps)

Sponsors: The 3rd Annual Health Equity Summit is a joint effort presented by the University of Vermont Health Network, the Larner College of Medicine, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and the University of Vermont.

More information: Health Equity Summit | The University of Vermont Health Network (uvmhealth.org)

Questions? Please email HESummit@uvmhealth.org

Recent News

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UVMCC partners with Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation

October 16, 2023 by Kate Strotmeyer

To reduce barriers to skin cancer screening, the University of Vermont Cancer Center works with the UVM Cancer Center’s community advisory board member, Chief Donald Stevens, tribal leader for the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation to bring skin checks out to communities in Vermont.
Newest Medical Students Receive White Coats

October 13, 2023 by Janet Essman Franz

Class of 2027 medical students received their first white coats on October 13 in a special ceremony at Ira Allen Chapel. The students hail from throughout the nation and around the world, and each has a unique story of what brought them to study medicine. Meet some of UVM's newest future doctors.
WCAX Covers White Coat Ceremony, Kickoff of UVM Medical Students’ Journey to Clinical Practice

October 13, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson

(OCTOBER 13, 2023) WCAX-TV covered the Larner College of Medicine’s annual White Coat Ceremony, in which the newest class of medical students don their symbolic white coats for the first time. Larner Dean Richard L. Page, M.D., led students in reciting The Oath, which reads in part, “I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist's drug.”
Read full story at WCAX-TV
WCAX Highlights Whitaker’s $2M Grant to Study Anesthesia-Induced Hypotension

October 12, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson

(OCTOBER 12, 2023) WCAX-TV reports that Emmett Whitaker, M.D., FAAP, associate professor of anesthesiology, neurological sciences, and pediatrics at the Larner College of Medicine, has been granted a $1.95 million award to study anesthesia-induced hypotension in neonates, infants, and older adults.
Read full story at WCAX-TV
UVM Professor Receives $1.3M Grant for Trauma Research

October 10, 2023 by Angela Ferrante

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