Office of Medical Communications

(MARCH 23, 2023) Christopher Grace, M.D., FIDSA, professor emeritus of medicine, is busier than ever, according to a Burlington Free Press article on the Open Door Clinic in Middlebury, where Grace has been volunteering for nearly 10 years.

(MARCH 22, 2023) Jesse Ritvo, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, will join other allopathic medical experts as well as American Meditation Institute faculty at the 12th Annual Heart and Science of Yoga Conference, October 17–21, 2023, in Manchester, Vermont, LatestFinance News reports.

Christa Zehle, M.D., senior associate dean for medical education, has announced the appointment of Katie Wells, M.D., M.P.H., as the inaugural director of social medicine in the Office of Medical Education at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, effective April 3, 2023.

In fall 2022, public health warnings of a possible ”tripledemic” blared across news headlines due to an early-season surge in cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), reported to be the leading cause of infant hospitalizations in the U.S. Sean Diehl, Ph.D., UVM associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, is a co-inventor on the patented technology that led to an RSV preventative treatment.

(MARCH 21, 2023) Pediatric pulmonologist L. E. Faricy, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, supports banning the retail sale of all flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes, according to VTDigger.

(MARCH 20, 2023) There are many possible reasons for why knowing your blood type could give clues to your risk of stroke and heart attack, hematologist Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc., professor of medicine and pathology and laboratory medicine, told the St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune.

(MARCH 18, 2023) Psychiatrist Terry Rabinowitz, M.D., D.D.S., professor of psychiatry and family medicine, who has been providing mental health care by video to a rural nursing home in upstate New York since 2002, was quoted in a USA Today article on mental health telemedicine.

The University of Vermont’s graduating medical students were among a record-breaking nearly 43,000 future physicians participating in the National Resident Matching Program’s 2023 Main Residency Match® on Match Day on March 17.

(MARCH 17, 2023) Fourth-year medical students at UVM’s Larner College of Medicine learned about their immediate futures at this year’s Match Day on March 17, WCAX-TV reported. The ceremony — held in person for the first time since 2019 — is how many students find out where they’ll continue their medical education as resident physicians and marks a huge milestone as they begin their professional medical careers.

(MARCH 17, 2023) Rebecca Bell, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, supports legislation that would establish a waiting period for all gun purchases and a so-called safe storage provision that would require gun owners to keep their weapons securely locked if someone else who shouldn’t have a gun would otherwise be able to gain access, according to Vermont Public.

(MARCH 16, 2023) Peter Jackson, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, was interviewed by NBC5 for a story on Vermont’s 10-year high in the number of fatal car crashes in 2022 — about 60 percent of which involved impaired drivers, state records show.

(MARCH 15, 2023) Margaret Infeld, M.D., M.S., clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellow and clinical instructor in the Department of Medicine, explained the results of her recent MyPace study on so-called stiff hearts in an interview with WCAX-TV.

(MARCH 15, 2023) Richard Rawson, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, consulted with the coordinators of a new — and somewhat unorthodox — substance use treatment program run by Burlington-based nonprofit Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform, according to an article in Seven Days.

(MARCH 14, 2023) Turner Osler, M.D., professor of surgery emeritus, was interviewed by Medscape along with three other doctors for an article on physicians who have made changes in their medical careers to improve their work-life balance and happiness.

(MARCH 6, 2023) Sunil Eappen, M.D., M.B.A., clinical professor of anesthesiology and president and CEO of UVM Health Network, sat down with NBC5’s Stewart Ledbetter for his first in-person interview since taking over as president last year.

(MARCH 1, 2023) Sandra Wood, NP, CNM, PMHNP, certified nurse-midwife and psychiatric nurse practitioner in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, told Seven Days she sees a strong connection between doula care and positive mental health outcomes for pregnant and postpartum women.

(MARCH 1, 2023) Commenting to Medscape for an article on differential multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis for minorities, Andrew Solomon, M.D., professor of neurological sciences and chief of the Division of Multiple Sclerosis, said that for years, the “prevailing thought” was that MS was less common in underrepresented populations.

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont hosted the fourth annual Celebration of Gender Equity in Medicine and Science on March 2, 2023.

(FEBRUARY 28, 2023) Neurologist John Steele Taylor, M.D., assistant professor of neurological sciences and medical co-director of the Memory Program at UVM Medical Center, joined Meg Polyte, policy and advocacy director for the Vermont chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, in a conversation with Connor Cyrus on Vermont Public’s Vermont Edition program.

(FEBRUARY 28, 2023) James Gerson, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and director of the CAR T-Cell Program, spoke to the Press-Republican about the promising cancer treatment called CAR T-cell therapy that is now available at the UVM Cancer Center.