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The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at the University of Vermont has a remarkable community that provides ample opportunities to connect with fellow graduate students, postdocs, staff, and faculty. Offerings include workshops, conferences, events and seminars to bring together the perspectives of our diverse specialties. It is important to share your voice and feel heard as well as get involved with our Larner Community. 

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  • VTDigger Publishes Pulcini Commentary on Firearm Tragedies
    December 28, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (DECEMBER 28, 2022) Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Christian Pulcini, M.D., M.Ed., M.P.H., an attending physician in pediatric emergency medicine at the UVM Medical Center and Children’s Hospital, published a commentary titled “We Can Prevent Firearm Tragedies — a Call to Action” in VTDigger.
    Read full story at VTDigger
  • UVM Clinical Simulation Lab Highlighted in WCAX-TV Story
    December 27, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (DECEMBER 27, 2022) UVM’s Clinical Simulation Laboratory was profiled in a story broadcast on WCAX-TV about how the Larner College of Medicine ensures that students filling emergency departments or doctors’ offices are trained to the highest potential before being put into the real world. UVM medical residents Berna Buyukozturk, M.D., and Carolina Jirka, M.D., as well as Sim Lab specialist Jim Court, were quoted in the piece. (Click on headline for more.)
  • THINKMD Wins Federal Grant to Study Effectiveness of Mobile App
    December 26, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (December 26, 2022) THINKMD, founded in 2014 by Professor of Pediatrics Barry Finette, M.D., Ph.D., and Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus Barry Heath, M.D., has received a $1.5 million federal grant to further study the effectiveness of its mobile app–based digital “clinical intelligence” tool, WCAX reports.
    Read full story at WCAX-TV
  • Cushman and Colleagues' Research on Inequities in Health Care Access and Delivery in ASCO Post Article
    December 25, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (DECEMBER 25, 2022) Research by Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc., professor of medicine, and colleagues found inequities in treatments and outcomes for pulmonary embolism, The ASCO Post reports.
    Read full story at The ASCO Post
  • Times Argus Highlights Weiss’s New Year’s Ode to Beethoven’s 9th
    December 24, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (DECEMBER 24, 2022) The Green Mountain Mahler Festival, founded in 2002 by pulmonologist Daniel Weiss, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine, continued what has become an annual New Year’s tradition with a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on January 1 at the Elley-Long Music Center in Colchester, the Barre–Montpelier Times Argus reported.
    Read full story at The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus
  • UVM’s Redox Researchers Collaborate with Scholars at Japan’s Tohoku University
    December 22, 2022 by Janet Essman Franz
    Albert van der Vliet, Ph.D., professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, participated in a six-week Invited Fellowship at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, engaging in research on environmental medicine and molecular toxicology. The fellowship coincided with a medley of scientific meetings and symposia that brought together leading scientists from around the world in the specific research fields of nitric oxide biology. Dr. van der Vliet, Yvonne Janssen-Heininger, Ph.D., and Brian Cunniff, Ph.D. participated as invited speakers. Additional Japanese federal funding supports the exchange of invited researchers, graduate students and post-doctoral scholars to collaborate on research.
  • Sick Days or Truancy? Bell Comments to Burlington Free Press on Kids Missing School
    December 22, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (DECEMBER 22, 2022) Critical care physician Rebecca Bell, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, spoke to the Burlington Free Press for an article on Vermont truancy policies in the face of COVID and other sick-day absences.
    Read full story at Burlington Free Press
  • Larner Faculty Members’ THINKMD Tool Brings Needed Clinical Expertise to Remote Populations
    December 21, 2022 by Jennifer Nachbur
    University of Vermont Professor of Pediatrics Barry Finette, M.D., Ph.D., and Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus Barry Heath, M.D., spent three years developing and testing a mobile app-based digital tool designed to bring physician-based knowledge to the hands of minimally skilled health workers. In 2014, they founded THINKMD™.
  • Season of Giving: Alum Kelly McQueen, M.D. Fosters Global Service Careers
    December 21, 2022 by Annie Seyler
    Kelly McQueen, M.D., a medical alumna from the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine Class of 1991, recently established the Kelly McQueen, M.D.’91, Endowment for Global Health Education to support international clinical rotations for Larner medical students and the Global Health Program curriculum.
  • VCBH Presents Preventive Medicine Ninth Special Issue, November 2022
    December 21, 2022 by Charles Brooks
    The November 2022 Special Issue of Preventive Medicine is now available. The ninth in a series that focuses on behavior change, health, and health disparities, this issue includes select research in the field of tobacco control and regulatory science. VCBH Director Stephen Higgins, PhD organized the selection of papers and acted as guest editor.
  • Cushman and Colleagues Find Social Disparities in Treatments and Outcomes for Pulmonary Embolism
    December 20, 2022 by Jennifer Nachbur
    Racial minorities and people with lower incomes or who are insured by Medicare or Medicaid are significantly less likely to receive the most advanced therapies and more likely to die after suffering a pulmonary embolism, according to a new analysis conducted by University of Vermont Professor of Medicine Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc., and colleagues.
  • Leach and Basoglu to Challenge Teen Brain Bee Participants, Seven Days Reports
    December 17, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (DECEMBER 17, 2022) Neuropsychologist Sharon Leach, Ph.D., and child psychiatrist Feyza Basoglu, M.D., both clinical assistant professors of psychiatry, will challenge participants to diagnose psychiatric or neurological disorders as part of the 14th annual Vermont Brain Bee neuroscience competition to be held at the Larner College of Medicine on February 11, Seven Days reports.
    Read full story at Seven Days
  • Bell Featured in WCAX-TV Story on RSV Vaccine Trial
    December 16, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (DECEMBER 16, 2022) A Pfizer RSV vaccine for pregnant women is in phase 3 trial, with the potential to help infants cope with the sometimes serious illness, according to WCAX-TV. “If infants can be born with some immunity,” says pediatric critical care physician Rebecca Bell, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, “even if it’s short-lived, even if it’s six months or one year, that can make a huge difference in terms of kids’ health.” (Click headline for more.)
  • Bertges Presents Promising Interim DCB Study Results at VIVA, per Vascular Specialist
    December 15, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (December 15, 2022) At Vascular InterVentional Advances 2022 in Las Vegas, Daniel Bertges, M.D., professor of surgery, presented promising interim data from a study of the effectiveness of the IN.PACT Admiral drug-coated balloon in treating femoropopliteal in-stent restenosis.
    Read full story at Vascular Specialist
  • Carr Laments Barriers to Access to Treatments for the Disease of Obesity
    December 11, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (DECEMBER 11, 2023) Barre internal medicine specialist Priscilla Carr, M.D., clinical instructor of medicine, wrote a commentary in VT Digger about Vermonters’ limited access to treatment for obesity.
    Read full story at VT Digger
  • Collins Discusses Surging Flu Cases with Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
    December 10, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (DECEMBER 10, 2022) Keith Collins, M.D., clinical assistant professor of family medicine, was interviewed by the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal about rising virus numbers locally.
    Read full story at Lockport (N.Y.) Union-Sun & Journal
  • Cushman Study Links Low Socioeconomic Status with Greater In-Hospital Mortality, Pharmacy Times Reports
    December 10, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (DECEMBER 10, 2022) Trial investigator Mary Cushman, M.D., professor of medicine, presented study findings on social determinants of health [SDOH] and pulmonary embolism treatment and mortality at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting, Pharmacy Times reported.
    Read full story at Pharmacy Times
  • Bell Warns of Flu, RSV in News & Citizen Interview
    December 8, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (DECEMBER 8, 2022) Associate Professor of Pediatrics Rebecca Bell, M.D., M.P.H., head of the Vermont chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, spoke to the News & Citizen about the importance of getting a seasonal flu shot, and about RSV.
    Read full story at News & Citizen (Morrisville, Vt.)
  • Kennedy Comments to WVNY about Life-saving Cyanokits
    December 8, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (DECEMBER 8, 2022) Joseph Kennedy, M.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine and director of toxicology education, was quoted in a WVNY-TV story on a new tool firefighters can use to save lives—the Cyanokit.
    Read full story at WVNY-TV
  • Leahy, Pawlowski Comment to WCAX on New Collaborative Care Model
    December 7, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (DECEMBER 7, 2022) Maureen Leahy, M.Ed., director of psychiatry and neurology health care services for the UVM Health Network, and Sara Pawlowski, M.D., primary care mental health integration division chief and assistant professor of psychiatry, spoke with WCAX-TV about the UVM Health Network’s launch of a new collaborative care model.
    Read full story at WCAX-TV