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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  • UVM Cancer Center Partners with Community Health Centers to Boost Breast Cancer Screenings for Nepali Women
    September 6, 2024 by Jeffrey Wakefield
  • Larner Medical Students Mentor Vermont Youth at Summer Health Institute
    September 5, 2024 by Margie Brenner
    Last month at Vermont State University’s Castleton and Lyndon campuses, 11 Larner medical student volunteers from the Class of 2027—Lajla Badnjević, Jeremiah Bates, Shannon Bennett, Alison Chivers, Aaron Dees, Lindsey Gleason, Ian Kent, Taylor Krause, Elizabeth Medve, Chloe Ruscilli, and Eli Zettler—served as Southern Vermont Area Health Education Center (AHEC) student mentors at the week-long summer Governor’s Institutes of Vermont (GIV) Health and Medicine Institute.
  • Adrianzen-Herrera, Mori, and Scharnetzki Receive ACS Institutional Research Grant
    September 5, 2024 by Katelyn Queen, PhD
  • Chaarani Quoted in Tulalip News Story about Kids, Cops, and Video Games
    September 4, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (SEPTEMBER 4, 2024) Bader Chaarani, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, was quoted in a Tulalip News story about the community benefits of connecting kids and cops through video games.
    Read full story at Tulalip News
  • Pulmonary Hypertension Care Center Accreditation Highlights Clinical Excellence
    September 3, 2024 by Angela Ferrante and Phillip Rau
    Local and health system-wide investments in care and treatment for patients across Vermont and northern New York who suffer from a collection of rare, progressive and deadly heart-and-lung related conditions have earned University of Vermont Medical Center’s Pulmonary Hypertension Program national accreditation as a Pulmonary Hypertension Care Center (PHCC) – a designation that highlights the program’s clinical excellence and will improve access to national clinical trials and support groups for patients across the rural region served by the hospital.
  • Sprague Study on False-Positive Mammogram Results Featured in HealthDay
    September 3, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (SEPTEMBER 3, 2024) HealthDay featured a study by Brian Sprague, Ph.D., professor of surgery, et al. investigating the effect of false-positive mammogram results on women’s willingness to return for future screening.
    Read full story at HealthDay
  • Capturing a Picture of Health: VisualDx and Art Papier, M.D. '88
    August 18, 2024 by Janet Essman Franz
    Art Papier, M.D.’88, was a first-year medical student when he attended a lecture by the late Lawrence Weed, M.D., which focused on the advantages of keeping detailed, shareable medical records to improve patient care. Papier was fascinated by Weed’s work. That fascination eventually led Papier to create a clinical decision tool that visually shows, describes, and categorizes thousands of diseases. The tool, VisualDx, today is used in clinics and medical schools throughout the nation and across the globe. It delivers time-sensitive, clinically relevant information for diagnosing and treating common and rare diseases and brings public health to the point of care.
  • Hands-On Learning: Medical Students Work with Patients Early in Curriculum
    September 1, 2024 by Janet Essman Franz
    Larner students work with real patients in the first year of medical school. In Doctoring in Vermont, a course that pairs students with physicians in the community, they provide direct patient care and practice history-taking and examination skills. First-year students also shadow nurses in the hospital, investigate social determinants of health, and do clinical work in community settings.
  • Dr. First Talks ‘First’ Aid with Adirondack Daily Enterprise
    August 31, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 31, 2024) In a column on injury prevention for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Lewis First, M.D., M.S., professor and chair of pediatrics, explains how to put together a family first aid kit.
    Read full story at Adirondack Daily Enterprise
  • Leffler Quoted in Valley News Article on Vt. Health Insurance Costs
    August 28, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 28, 2024) Stephen Leffler, M.D.’90, president and COO of the UVM Medical Center, was quoted by the Valley News in an article on Vermont’s ever-escalating health insurance prices.
    Read full story at the (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) Valley News
  • Dombrowski Comments to Seven Days on UVM’s Research Buildup
    August 28, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 28, 2024) Kirk Dombrowski, Ph.D., vice president for research and economic development at the University of Vermont, spoke with Seven Days about the university’s efforts to secure its future by building up its research.
    Read full story at Seven Days
  • UVM Cancer Center Trainee Spotlight – Deena Snoke, Ph.D.
    August 28, 2024 by Katelyn Queen, Ph.D.
    In a new publication in the Journal of Cachexia and Sarcopenia of Muscle, post-doc Deena Snoke, Ph.D., shares her research findings that lung cancer patients experience a 20 percent reduction in muscle fiber size after two months of conventional treatment despite no measurable changes in muscle at the whole-body or whole-tissue level.
  • New York Times Interviews Kennedy about DEET Toxicity
    August 27, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 27, 2024) Joseph Kennedy, M.D., director of toxicology education, spoke with the New York Times about people’s concerns about the effect of DEET bug spray on human health.
    Read full story at The New York Times
  • Brady Interviewed by Healio about AI-generated Scientific Abstracts
    August 23, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 23, 2024) Christopher Brady, M.D., M.H.S., associate professor of surgery, commented to Healio about his research on the use of large language models (LLMs) in generating scientific abstracts.
    Read full story at Healio
  • Rutland Herald Highlights Upcoming Health Heroes Workshops for Youth
    August 23, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 23, 2024) UVM Extension 4-H has partnered with UVM Larner College of Medicine to offer a series of interactive Health Heroes Workshops for Youth for teens this fall that promote practical health and wellness knowledge, the Rutland Herald reports.
    Read full story at the Rutland Herald
  • New Study in Radiology Shows Benefit of Ultrasound Screening for Some Women with Dense Breasts
    August 21, 2024 by Kate Strotmeyer
  • New Hope for Heart Failure: Larner College of Medicine Scientist’s Breakthrough Treatment
    August 20, 2024 by Angela Ferrante
    In a recent paper, titled “Vasohibin Inhibition Improves Myocardial Relaxation in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction,” Matthew Caporizzo, Ph.D., assistant professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, along with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, have created a powerful small molecule vasohibin inhibitor (VASHi) to block MTN detyrosination in live animals. Detyrosination is the enzymatic removal of the tyrosine (an amino acid that is used by cells to build proteins) residue from the C-terminal end of tubulin (a protein that forms microtubules), which makes the microtubules sticky, impeding the heart cells from relaxing properly.
  • Burlington Free Press Interviews Badlam about UVMMC Pulmonary Hypertension Care Center Accreditation
    August 16, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 16, 2024) Jessica Badlam, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and director of the pulmonary hypertension program at the UVM Medical Center, spoke with the Burlington Free Press about the hospital’s Pulmonary Hypertension Care Center receiving national accreditation from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association.
    Read full story at the Burlington Free Press
  • Paving the Way for Health Equity: UVM’s NAYR Program
    August 16, 2024 by Angela Ferrante
    Health equity improves when the health sciences workforce reflects the diversity of the community and health care systems invest in marginalized communities. The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at UVM, along with the College of Nursing and Health Sciences and the College of Education and Social Services, has recently been granted a substantial award by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—an R25 Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA)—to sponsor a new mentorship and science enrichment cohort program, New American Youth on the Rise (NAYR), aimed at guiding girls from immigrant backgrounds into college careers in health sciences.
  • Caporizzo Interviewed by WVNY about Research Findings on Promising New Heart Disease Treatment
    August 12, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson
    (AUGUST 12, 2024) Researchers including Matthew Caporizzo, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, have discovered a promising new treatment for heart disease, WVNY-TV reports.
    Read full story at WVNY-TV