Community

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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  • Forbes Interviews McGee on Using Basal Body Temperature to Chart Fertility
    August 17, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 17, 2022) Ob-Gyn professor Elizabeth McGee, M.D., told Forbes that while tracking basal body temperature can be a helpful tool for charting ovulation phases, this shouldn’t be the only method used to prevent pregnancy or to get pregnant.
    Read full story at Forbes
  • UVM Cancer Center Inaugural Juckett Scholar investigates novel Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Pathway
    August 15, 2022 by Kate Strotmeyer, M.Ed.
  • Newest Service for Cancer In-Patients? A Very Old Chinese Art
    August 15, 2022 by Katherine Strotmeyer
    Beginning in the fall, acupuncture will be provided at no cost to inpatient hematology and oncology patients at the University of Vermont (UVM) Medical Center, thanks to a new grant to the UVM Cancer Center from the Victoria Buffum Fund.
  • Vaccination Is Best Protection Against Polio Virus, Lahey Tells WVNY-TV
    August 12, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 12, 2022) In response to the news that polio virus has been detected in New York City wastewater, infectious disease specialist Tim Lahey, M.D., M.M.Sc., professor of medicine, told WVNY-TV ABC22 that vaccination is the best protection.
    Read full story at MyChamplainValley.com
  • WCAX Interviews Lahey on How to Keep Regional COVID Rates Low
    August 12, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 12, 2022) Infectious disease specialist Tim Lahey, M.D., M.M.Sc., professor of medicine, spoke to WCAX-TV about what actions people — and public health officials — can take to help keep COVID case rates down in Vermont and Northern New York despite the increased transmissibility of the BA-5 variant.
  • Larner Welcomes Class of 2026 Medical Students
    August 12, 2022 by Michelle Bookless and Jennifer Nachbur
    Class of 2026 medical students start their journeys toward becoming physicians during Orientation.
  • Stein Comments on $20M NIH Grant to Vermont–Maine Partnership, VermontBiz Reports
    August 11, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 11, 2022) A $20 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to the New England Clinical and Translational Research Network (NNE-CTR) will allow NNE-CTR members from UVM, MaineHealth Institute for Research, and the University of Southern Maine to address chronic and life-threatening diseases in northern New England, VermontBiz reports.
    Read full story at VermontBiz
  • UVM & Maine Partners Awarded $20 Million to Continue NNE-CTR Work
    August 11, 2022 by Jennifer Nachbur
    The Northern New England Clinical and Translational Research Network has received a $20 million-dollar renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue work to ensure residents in Vermont and Maine – and particularly the elderly, New American and Indigenous populations – receive greater support to address chronic and life-threatening diseases.
  • Larner First-Years Present MedQuest Program to Bennington County High Schoolers
    August 9, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 9, 2022) Five high school students from Bennington County recently completed a MedQuest 2.0 program designed and delivered by first-year medical students from the Robert Larner College of Medicine to gain a richer understanding of health careers available to them in Vermont.
    Read full story at Bennington Banner
  • Scholarly Summer: Second-Year Students' Research Explores Unmet Health Needs
    August 9, 2022 by Janet Franz
    For students pursuing a degree in medicine, there’s no off-season. During a two-month break between their first and second years, many Larner College of Medicine medical students tackled projects to address unmet health needs, practice clinical skills, and immerse themselves in specialty clerkships with physician preceptors.
  • Center on Rural Addiction Studies Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use in Maine
    August 5, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 5, 2022) A new survey by UVM’s Center on Rural Addiction — which is headed by Stacey Sigmon, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry — working with the University of Southern Maine’s Cutler Institute highlights challenges in access to medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorders in Maine’s rural areas.
    Read full story at Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine)
  • The Evolution of UVM's Emergency Medicine Department
    August 5, 2022 by Jennifer Nachbur
    Emergency medicine is relatively new; it began to take shape in the mid- to late-1960s, when the American Medical Association established an emergency medicine committee and the American College of Emergency Physicians was founded. However, it wasn’t until 1979 that the American Board of Medical Specialties finally recognized the field as a specialty.
  • Botten Lab Awarded Patents, Funds to Study RNA Viruses and Develop Novel Antiviral Strategies
    August 3, 2022 by Janet L. Essman Franz
    Jason Botten, Ph.D., professor of medicine and associate director of the Vermont Biomedical Research Network, received a University of Vermont SPARK-VT grant to help commercialize his work to develop broad-spectrum antiviral therapeutics, following a faculty pitch competition held in June 2022.
  • Althoff Named Chair and Health Care Leader of Psychiatry
    August 2, 2022 by Ed Neuert
    University of Vermont Associate Professor of Psychiatry Robert Althoff, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed chair of the Department of Psychiatry and health care service leader for psychiatry, effective August 1, 2022.
  • Lahey Interviewed by Vermont Public about Monkeypox
    August 1, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 1, 2022) After the World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global health emergency and the first case of the virus was recently confirmed in Vermont, Tim Lahey, M.D., M.M.Sc., professor of medicine, spoke with Vermont Public about what we need to know about the virus, and who’s at highest risk.
  • Lounsbury Quoted in Social Work Today Article
    August 1, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 1, 2022) Karen Lounsbury, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and director of foundations and preclinical assessment, is quoted in an article in “Social Work Today” on integrating service delivery by medical or physical health providers, behavioral health providers, and social service providers.
  • Telegraph Quotes King on ‘Vermonters Taking Action Against Cancer’ Program
    July 31, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JULY 31, 2022) In response to statistics showing that lung cancer kills more Vermonters than breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers combined, family medicine professor John King, M.D., and colleagues at the UVM and Dartmouth Cancer Centers are spearheading a new community education program called Vermonters Taking Action Against Cancer, the (Nashua, N.H.) Telegraph reported.
    Read full story at The (Nashua, N.H.) Telegraph
  • The Cancer Letter Features Yates Reflecting on Starting UVM Cancer Center
    July 29, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JULY 29, 2022) Retired oncology professor Jerome Yates, M.D., spoke with Alexandria Carolan, a reporter with The Cancer Letter and associate editor of the Cancer History Project, about building a cancer center at the University of Vermont.
    Read full story at The Cancer Letter
  • Ehret Invested as Inaugural Asfaw Yemiru Green and Gold Professor in Global Health
    July 28, 2022 by Jennifer Nachbur and Christina Davenport
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics and neonatologist Danielle Ehret, M.D., M.P.H., was invested as the inaugural Asfaw Yemiru Green and Gold Professor in Global Health in a formal ceremony held at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine on July 28, 2022.
  • Diehl Comments to CT Insider on Yale’s Omicron-specific mRNA Vaccine
    July 28, 2022 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (JULY 28, 2022) Sean Diehl, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, spoke with CT Insider about an Omicron-specific mRNA vaccine developed by Yale scientists that creates a strong antibody response against subvariants BA.1 and BA.2.12.1.
    Read full story at CT Insider