Office of Primary Care and Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program

(MARCH 15, 2023) Margaret Infeld, M.D., M.S., clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellow and clinical instructor in the Department of Medicine, explained the results of her recent MyPace study on so-called stiff hearts in an interview with WCAX-TV.

(MARCH 15, 2023) Richard Rawson, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, consulted with the coordinators of a new — and somewhat unorthodox — substance use treatment program run by Burlington-based nonprofit Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform, according to an article in Seven Days.

(MARCH 14, 2023) Turner Osler, M.D., professor of surgery emeritus, was interviewed by Medscape along with three other doctors for an article on physicians who have made changes in their medical careers to improve their work-life balance and happiness.

(MARCH 6, 2023) Sunil Eappen, M.D., M.B.A., clinical professor of anesthesiology and president and CEO of UVM Health Network, sat down with NBC5’s Stewart Ledbetter for his first in-person interview since taking over as president last year.

(MARCH 1, 2023) Sandra Wood, NP, CNM, PMHNP, certified nurse-midwife and psychiatric nurse practitioner in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, told Seven Days she sees a strong connection between doula care and positive mental health outcomes for pregnant and postpartum women.

(MARCH 1, 2023) Commenting to Medscape for an article on differential multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis for minorities, Andrew Solomon, M.D., professor of neurological sciences and chief of the Division of Multiple Sclerosis, said that for years, the “prevailing thought” was that MS was less common in underrepresented populations.

(FEBRUARY 28, 2023) Neurologist John Steele Taylor, M.D., assistant professor of neurological sciences and medical co-director of the Memory Program at UVM Medical Center, joined Meg Polyte, policy and advocacy director for the Vermont chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, in a conversation with Connor Cyrus on Vermont Public’s Vermont Edition program.

(FEBRUARY 28, 2023) James Gerson, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and director of the CAR T-Cell Program, spoke to the Press-Republican about the promising cancer treatment called CAR T-cell therapy that is now available at the UVM Cancer Center.

(FEBRUARY 25, 2023) Angela Shook, an end-of-life doula who graduated from and now teaches in UVM’s End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate Program, was interviewed by News Finale for an article on forgiveness at the end of life.

(FEBRUARY 23, 2023) Stephen Leffler, M.D., M.H.C.D.S., professor of emergency medicine and president and CEO of the UVM Medical Center, and Sunil Eappen, M.D., M.B.A., president and CEO of the UVM Health Network, spoke to The Other Paper about UVMMC’s request for state approval to build a new surgery facility at its current Tilley Drive complex in South Burlington.

(FEBRUARY 19, 2023) Alexandra Bannach, M.D., Haley McGowan, D.O., and Greta Spottswood, M.D.’11, M.P.H., spoke to VTDigger about the Vermont Child Psychiatry Access Program, a grant-funded program conceived of by Spottswood that offers a free telephone hotline for primary care providers who see children and youth with mild to moderate mental health challenges.

(FEBRUARY 17, 2023) Diego Adrianzen Herrera, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, commented to Medscape on a study of postremission therapy in patients with intermediate-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that was published online in JAMA Oncology.

(FEBRUARY 16, 2023) Ellen McGinnis, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and one of the creators - with Ryan McGinnis, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical and biomedical engineering - of PanicMechanic, an app that coaches individuals through panic attacks, spoke with WCAX-TV about a new study that aims to help prepare for, intervene with, and even prevent panic attacks.

(FEBRUARY 15, 2023) Pediatric psychiatrist Sarah Guth, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, was interviewed on WCAX-TV for a story on postpartum depression (which medical professionals now call “perinatal mood and anxiety disorder”).

(FEBRUARY 15, 2023) Christian Pulcini, M.D., M.Ed., M.P.H., assistant professor of emergency medicine, and Rebecca Bell, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, commented to NBC5 in response to news that thousands of free gun locks will soon be available to the public across the state.

(FEBRUARY 14, 2023) Andrea Grayson, Ed.D., M.A., assistant professor of public health at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine, was quoted in an article in Country Folks offering farmers practical strategies for de-escalating stressful situations.

(FEBRUARY 14, 2023) In an opinion piece published in VTDigger, psychiatry resident Nat Mulkey, M.D., clinical instructor of psychiatry, discusses his feelings of sadness, defensiveness, and discomfort at the negative portrayals of the local health care system in the news and elsewhere.

(FEBRUARY 11, 2023) UVM’s Center on Rural Addiction is donating “NaloxBoxes” containing doses of the opioid reversal drug naloxone throughout the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire, according to New Hampshire Public Radio.

(FEBRUARY 11, 2023) Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc., professor of medicine and director of the thrombosis and hemostasis program at the UVM Medical Center, recently spoke with The American Journal of Managed Care about racial trends in pulmonary embolism treatment and potential improvements compared with pre-pandemic trends.

(FEBRUARY 10, 2023) Eric Ross, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, shared “oddities” in two studies of antidepressant therapies by a team of researchers in Egypt with the journals that had published the studies. Now, almost a year later, one paper has been pulled and the other is still under review.