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(MAY 15, 2024) Larner College of Medicine dean Richard L. Page, M.D., and Vermont State Health Commissioner Mark Levine, M.D., or their designees, have been named to an advisory working group tasked with studying psychedelic therapy to improve mental health, GreenMountain Cannabis News Reports.

(May 15, 2024) Veterans for Responsible Leadership, a political action committee founded and led by Daniel Barkhuff, M.D., held an event called Constitutional Thresholds—billed as an “interactive and immersive tabletop exercise and war game”—in California and Washington, D.C., Seven Days reports.

(MAY 14, 2024) Maggie Lambert, director of Larner’s Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Med Program, spoke with WCAX-TV about a new partnership between the University of Vermont and the University of New England to expand medical education for college graduates interested in rural health care.

(MAY 10, 2024) UVM Medical Center pathologist Christina Wojewoda, M.D., professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, discussed the new COVID variant FLiRT KP.2 in a Yahoo News Parade article.

(MAY 9, 2024) Richard Rawson, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, commented to WBUR about a smartphone app being piloted by DynamiCare at CODAC Behavioral Healthcare in Rhode Island that pays addicts to stay off drugs.

(MAY 9, 2024) Russell Tracy, Ph.D., professor of pathology & laboratory medicine and biochemistry, spoke with WCAX-TV about his team’s groundbreaking study about the molecular impact of exercise.

(MAY 8, 2024) Kimberly Blake, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences, was featured in a Seven Days article on ways parents who have lost a child to addiction channel their grief.

(MAY 8, 2024) Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine, M.D., Larner professor of medicine, commented to Seven Days on the statistic that overdose deaths have topped 200 in Vermont for the third straight year.

(MAY 7, 2024) UVMMC Clinical Nurse Project Manager Melinda Pariser-Schmidt, M.S., commented to NBC5 about the UVM Medical Center’s kickoff of Nurse Appreciation Week with a puppy petting zoo.

(MAY 8, 2024) The UVM Medical Center has been running a food bank for qualifying patients in the Children’s Specialty Center since 2016, and they say they’ve seen a huge increase in the number of patients and families who end up needing the service, according to WCAX-TV.

(MAY 6, 2024) Charles MacLean, M.D., professor of medicine, testified before the House Human Services Committee in support of a bill that would create a psychedelic-assisted therapy working group, Marijuana Moment reports.

(MAY 2, 2024) UVMMC President and COO Stephen Leffler, M.D., professor of emergency medicine, penned an opinion piece in VT Digger advocating for construction of a proposed outpatient surgery center in South Burlington as a solution to improve timely access to health care.

(APRIL 30, 2024) UVMMC researchers spoke with the Burlington Free Press for a story on a dramatic increase in bloodstream infections suspected to be fueled in part by the increasing presence of the horse tranquilizer xylazine in the illicit drug supply.

(APRIL 30, 2024) Rebecca Bell, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of pediatrics, commented to NBC5 for a story about Vermont’s free gun lock program.

(APRIL 28, 2024) In a Good Housekeeping article, Julie Dumas, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, discussed the scientific reasons behind why parents mix up their kids’ names.

(APRIL 27, 2024) Lewis First, M.D., chief of pediatrics at the UVM Children’s Hospital and professor and chair of pediatrics at the UVM Larner College of Medicine, wrote about Child Abuse Prevention Month (April) in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise.

(APRIL 26, 2024) Interviewed by WCAX-TV, Clara Keegan, M.D., associate professor of family medicine, weighed in on the pricing and availability of two drugs that are highly effective at treating diabetes and obesity.

(APRIL 23, 2024) Rebecca Burch, M.D., assistant professor of neurological sciences, discussed types of acute treatment for migraine in a Pharmacy Times article.

(APRIL 18, 2024) Kalev Freeman, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of emergency medicine and pharmacology, was quoted in a WCAX-TV story about equine-assisted therapy for people who have sustained traumatic brain injuries, or TBI.

(APRIL 17, 2024) Randall Holcombe, M.D., M.B.A., director of the University of Vermont Cancer Center, discussed colorectal cancer in a Vermont Public interview.