Office of Medical Communications

(SEPTEMBER 4, 2018) This summer, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine medical student Hanaa Shihadeh '21 had a chance to see her native country of Jordan through a different set of eyes - those of a Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) volunteer.

Helene Langevin, M.D., C.M., a visiting professor of neurological sciences at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, has been named director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.

The United States Department of Defense published an online article about Arti Shukla's, Ph.D., UVM associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, research study regarding the role of exosomes in the development of mesothelioma.

UVM Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology Melissa Covington, M.D. was interviewed by the Boston Globe to discuss the results of recent studies relating to opioid prescribing practices.

More than 150 people gathered for a formal investiture ceremony honoring the University of Vermont’s newest endowed faculty members and recognizing the donors who made the positions possible on August 21, 2018 at the UVM Alumni House. Michael LaMantia, M.D., M.P.H., was invested as the inaugural Holly and Bob Miller Chair in Memory and Aging and Rosemary Dale, Ed.D., A.P.R.N., was invested as the first Holly and Bob Miller Professor in Nursing Leadership.

On Thursday, August 16, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced that vaccinations have begun in a first-in-human trial of an experimental live, attenuated Zika virus vaccine.

Kathryn Huggett, Ph.D., director of the Teaching Academy at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, has announced the names of 16 new members of the Teaching Academy.

Vaccinations have begun in a first-in-human trial of an experimental live, attenuated Zika virus vaccine developed by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. The trial will enroll a total of 28 healthy, non-pregnant adults ages 18 to 50 at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Immunization Research in Baltimore, Md., and at the Vaccine Testing Center at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont in Burlington.

A study co-authored by Donald Leopold, M.D., UVM clinical professor of surgery, is co-focuses on phantom odors in aging Americans. According to the study, 1 in 15 Americans over the age of 40 experience smelling unpleasant scents with no apparent source.

UVM Assistant Professor of Surgery Thomas Ahern, Ph.D., is the recipient of one of 76 St. Baldrick's Foundation grants totaling more than $19.1 million to support studying innovative treatment options in the pediatric cancer space.

As the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont works toward a curriculum that is 100 percent lecture-free by 2019, faculty aren’t the only ones helping move the transition forward; medical students are playing a critical role in creating active learning curriculum as well.

The University of Vermont Center on Aging and UVM Geriatric Medicine program will host a presentation, titled “Caring for Caregivers and Transitions from Hospital to Home,” by international experts Horst Vollmar, M.D., M.P.H., and Mary Austrom, Ph.D., on August 3, 2018.

At the American Thoracic Society 2018 International Congress, held in May 2018, UVM E.L. Amidon Chair of Medicine Polly Parsons, M.D., was installed as president, and she and Larner College of Medicine colleagues Jason Bates, Ph.D., Sc.D., Anne Dixon, M.A., B.M., B.Ch., and Renee Stapleton, M.D., Ph.D., were inducted as the inaugural class of ATS Fellows.

Patricia King, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, was elected chair of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) at the organization’s 106th annual meeting in Charlotte, N.C., on April 28, 2018.

On July 18, 2018, UVM Larner College of Medicine clinical department chairs issued a letter to the community.

On July 22, 2018, a "Letter to the Community" submitted by the clinical chairs of the UVM Larner College of Medicine was published as a Commentary in VTDigger.

The University of Vermont’s Clinical Simulation Lab is pleased to welcome two new Simulation Fellows for 2018-2019: Stephen Ranney, M.D., and Nicholas Bedrin, M.D.

New translational research led by UVM Professor Yvonne Janssen-Heininger, Ph.D., demonstrates a novel biological therapeutic candidate for regressing pulmonary fibrosis in a difficult-to-treat preclinical model of the disease, providing much-needed hope for the roughly 150,000 Americans suffering from this devastating condition.

Margaret Tandoh, M.D., UVM Assistant Professor of Surgery, spoke with WCAX about ways parents can protect their kids against burns during the hot summer months.