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The January 2019 issue of Business People Vermont features a photo of University of Vermont Health Network CEO and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences John Brumsted, M.D., and cover story on the UVM Health Network.

A press conference announcing a $1 million lead gift from the New England Federal Credit Union to support a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the UVM Children’s Hospital garnered coverage in several regional news outlets.

WPTZ NBC5 News highlighted remarks made by Jan Carney, M.D., M.P.H., UVM associate dean for public health at a December 11 vigil organized by Gun Sense Vermont. Rebecca Bell, M.D., UVM assistant professor of pediatrics also spoke at the event, which was held in remembrance of all the people whose lives have been changed by gun violence in all of the 50 states.

Jim Hudziak, M.D., UVM professor and chief of child psychiatry, was featured on "CBS This Morning" to discuss the UVM Wellness Environment (WE) program.

Francesca Arnoldy, course developer and lead facilitator for the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine End of Life Doula Professional Certificate program, is featured in an AARP® The Magazine article on end of life doulas, titled "Learning to Serve the Dying."

The Rutland Herald featured a story, titled “Report: Vt. ranks 4th in donating bodies to science,” regarding a recently-released report from MedCure, one of the seven whole-body and non-transplant tissue donation centers nationwide accredited by the American Association of Tissue Banks.

Alexandra Potter, Ph.D., and Hugh Garavan, Ph.D., were featured in a Burlington Free Press article about UVM's role in the national Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study.

Comments by Assistant Professor of Surgery and UVM Cancer Center member Thomas Ahern, Ph.D., are featured in a CNN.com article, titled “Statins' benefits beyond heart health aren't clear-cut, analysis says.”

In honor of September being Prostate Cancer Awareness month, Mark Plante, M.D. UVM associate professor of surgery, spoke with WCAX about why prostate cancer diagnoses are going down.

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.

UVM Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology Melissa Covington, M.D. was interviewed by the Boston Globe to discuss the results of recent studies relating to opioid prescribing practices.

On Thursday, August 16, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced that vaccinations have begun in a first-in-human trial of an experimental live, attenuated Zika virus vaccine.

A study co-authored by Donald Leopold, M.D., UVM clinical professor of surgery, is co-focuses on phantom odors in aging Americans. According to the study, 1 in 15 Americans over the age of 40 experience smelling unpleasant scents with no apparent source.

On July 22, 2018, a "Letter to the Community" submitted by the clinical chairs of the UVM Larner College of Medicine was published as a Commentary in VTDigger.

Margaret Tandoh, M.D., UVM Assistant Professor of Surgery, spoke with WCAX about ways parents can protect their kids against burns during the hot summer months.

An article, titled "Academics pitching practical research" and highlighting UVM's SPARK-VT program, was posted today on InsideHigherEd.com .

In an interview with WCAX, Frances Carr, M.D., UVM professor of pharmacology, spoke about the new federal PFOA health standard.

University of Vermont President Tom Sullivan today announced the appointment of Richard L. Page, M.D., as the 18th dean of the Larner College of Medicine at UVM, effective October 1, 2018.

A blog post by medical student Sunit Misra '19 was featured in the Association of American Medical College's Aspiring Docs Diaries.

In May, CNN published an article about the removal of a 132-pound ovarian tumor from a woman at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, a branch clinical campus of UVM Larner College of Medicine.