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October 27, 2023 by
Lucy Gardner Carson
(OCTOBER 27, 2023) Julie Vieth, M.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine and assistant medical director of the Emergency Department at the University of Vermont Medical Center, was featured in a story on WCAX-TV about a UVM Health Network project spotlighting violence against frontline health care staff.
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at WCAX-TV
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October 24, 2023 by
Lucy Gardner Carson
(OCTOBER 24, 2023) Michael Hehir, M.D., professor of neurological sciences, spoke to Nicholas Silvestri, M.D., host of Medscape’s In Discussion: Myasthenia Gravis podcast, in an episode titled “Managing Myasthenia Gravis in Primary Care: Best Practices.”
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at Medscape’s In Discussion: Myasthenia Gravis podcast
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October 24, 2023 by
Vermont Center of Cardiovascular and Brain Health
These awards, supported wholly by funds from UVM entities, provide $200,000 over 2 years to fund meritorious research from early career faculty. We are very grateful to Deans from the Colleges of Medicine, Agriculture and Life Sciences, Nursing & Health Sciences, Arts & Sciences, Engineering & Mathematical Sciences, LCOM Deans Office, and the Graduate College, as well as the Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont, for their support of this program. In addition, we would like to acknowledge matching fund support from the Departments of Pharmacology and Neurological Sciences.
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October 24, 2023 by
Lucy Gardner Carson
(OCTOBER 24, 2023) A powerful video on violence in the Emergency Department at the University of Vermont Medical Center by Roland Kielman and Ryan Mercer, communications specialists with the University of Vermont Health Network, with text by Helen Ouyang, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor at Columbia University, was featured in the New York Times Opinion section.
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at New York Times
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October 3, 2023 by
Angela Ferrante
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October 20, 2023 by
Lucy Gardner Carson
(OCTOBER 20, 2023) Rachel Lee Cummings, M.P.H.’20, executive director of Counseling Service of Addison County, spoke to VT Digger about a new “living room” model of mental health urgent care that aims to reroute as many people as possible from the emergency room and link them directly to organizations that provide counseling and psychiatric services.
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at VTDigger
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October 19, 2023 by
Kate Strotmeyer
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October 17, 2023 by
Janet Essman Franz
There are currently no approved vaccines available to prevent Lyme disease in humans, but one may be on the way. UVM’s Vaccine Testing Center recently launched a clinical study to investigate the efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of a Lyme disease vaccine.
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October 16, 2023 by
Lucy Gardner Carson
(OCTOBER 16, 2023) Karen George, M.D., M.P.H., associate dean for students at the Larner College of Medicine, contributed to a Physician’s Weekly article on what residents and program directors think is needed for a successful transition to residency.
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at Physician’s Weekly
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October 16, 2023 by
Lucy Gardner Carson
(OCTOBER 16, 2023) Nataniel Lester-Coll, M.D., assistant professor of radiation oncology at the University of Vermont Medical Center, commented to Renal & Urology News about a study of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) as a treatment for prostate cancer.
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at Renal & Urology News
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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at WCAX-TV
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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.
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at WCAX-TV
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October 10, 2023 by
Angela Ferrante
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October 9, 2023 by
Lucy Gardner Carson
(OCTOBER 9, 2023) Kalev Freeman, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine, is part of a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) research team working on a new $12.1 million trauma research program, UPMC’s Inside Life Changing Medicine reports.
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at Inside Life Changing Medicine
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April 30, 2023 by
Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont
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May 30, 2023 by
Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont
2023 Norman R. Alpert Visiting Professor: James Spudich, PhD joins the Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont for career development seminar and Medicine Grand Rounds program "Myosin, The Exquisite Nanomachine: Basic Mechanisms to Therapies".
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May 15, 2023 by
Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont
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October 2, 2023 by
Cardiovascular Research Institute of Vermont
The Jim Ray Memorial Heart Ride embarks on its 23rd annual ride while continuing to support the CVRI research and education and honoring family members impacted by heart disease and stroke.