Department of Medicine

(MAY 15, 2024) Larner College of Medicine dean Richard L. Page, M.D., and Vermont State Health Commissioner Mark Levine, M.D., or their designees, have been named to an advisory working group tasked with studying psychedelic therapy to improve mental health, GreenMountain Cannabis News Reports.

(MAY 8, 2024) Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine, M.D., Larner professor of medicine, commented to Seven Days on the statistic that overdose deaths have topped 200 in Vermont for the third straight year.

(MAY 6, 2024) Charles MacLean, M.D., professor of medicine, testified before the House Human Services Committee in support of a bill that would create a psychedelic-assisted therapy working group, Marijuana Moment reports.

Meet Tina Thornton, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, co-director of I-Trep, a UVM-based biomedical entrepreneurship training initiative, and UVM faculty lead of the National Science Foundation Interior Northeast I-Corps Hub, which offers entrepreneurship training for student, postdoc, faculty, and other scientists and engineers.

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, UVM and the Larner College of Medicine have shown that improving metabolic health in obese mice before vaccination, but not after, protects against influenza virus.