Recent News

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  • Spring 2017 Community Medical School Kicks-off with 200+ Attendees
    March 9, 2017 by Kate Skinas
    Community Medical School launched its Spring 2017 series on Tuesday, March 7, with a lecture on “Happiness: Exploring the Science of Well-Being.” The talk by Andrew Rosenfeld, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, attracted more than 200 attendees.
  • Sadighs’ Global Health Commentary Featured in AAMC News
    March 8, 2017 by Kate Skinas
    A commentary on the benefits of global health electives for medical students, coauthored by Majid Sadigh, M.D., director of the Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) and UVM Larner College of Medicine’s Global Health Program, and Mitra Sadigh, was featured as a “Viewpoint” in the Association of American Medical College’s AAMC News.
  • Member Highlight: Long Tran, M.D.
    March 6, 2017 by Mitra Sadigh
    Dr. Long is a neurosurgeon at Cho Ray Hospital who recently completed three months of observership training in the ICU at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut.
  • Member Highlights: Michelle Mertz, M.D.
    March 6, 2017 by Mitra Sadigh
    Dr. Mertz, core faculty in Family Medicine at UVM and member of the UVM Global Health Leadership Team, discovered global health by following her own curiosity.
  • Novel Dimensional Approach Uncovers Biomarker for Inattention
    March 6, 2017 by Jennifer Nachbur
    Despite diagnoses for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) occurring in a reported 11 percent of U.S. school-aged kids, clinicians still don’t fully understand the underlying causes of this common condition. Now a brain marker may be on the horizon, thanks to a new approach that provides evidence of a relationship between brain structure and dimensional measures of ADHD symptoms.

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