Office of Primary Care and Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program

(OCTOBER 27, 2023) Julie Vieth, M.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine and assistant medical director of the Emergency Department at the University of Vermont Medical Center, was featured in a story on WCAX-TV about a UVM Health Network project spotlighting violence against frontline health care staff.

(OCTOBER 24, 2023) Michael Hehir, M.D., professor of neurological sciences, spoke to Nicholas Silvestri, M.D., host of Medscape’s In Discussion: Myasthenia Gravis podcast, in an episode titled “Managing Myasthenia Gravis in Primary Care: Best Practices.”

(OCTOBER 24, 2023) A powerful video on violence in the Emergency Department at the University of Vermont Medical Center by Roland Kielman and Ryan Mercer, communications specialists with the University of Vermont Health Network, with text by Helen Ouyang, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor at Columbia University, was featured in the New York Times Opinion section.

(OCTOBER 20, 2023) Rachel Lee Cummings, M.P.H.’20, executive director of Counseling Service of Addison County, spoke to VT Digger about a new “living room” model of mental health urgent care that aims to reroute as many people as possible from the emergency room and link them directly to organizations that provide counseling and psychiatric services.

(OCTOBER 16, 2023) Karen George, M.D., M.P.H., associate dean for students at the Larner College of Medicine, contributed to a Physician’s Weekly article on what residents and program directors think is needed for a successful transition to residency.

(OCTOBER 16, 2023) Nataniel Lester-Coll, M.D., assistant professor of radiation oncology at the University of Vermont Medical Center, commented to Renal & Urology News about a study of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) as a treatment for prostate cancer.

(OCTOBER 13, 2023) WCAX-TV covered the Larner College of Medicine’s annual White Coat Ceremony, in which the newest class of medical students don their symbolic white coats for the first time. Larner Dean Richard L. Page, M.D., led students in reciting The Oath, which reads in part, “I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the chemist's drug.”

(OCTOBER 12, 2023) WCAX-TV reports that Emmett Whitaker, M.D., FAAP, associate professor of anesthesiology, neurological sciences, and pediatrics at the Larner College of Medicine, has been granted a $1.95 million award to study anesthesia-induced hypotension in neonates, infants, and older adults.

(OCTOBER 9, 2023) Kalev Freeman, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine, is part of a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) research team working on a new $12.1 million trauma research program, UPMC’s Inside Life Changing Medicine reports.

(OCTOBER 2, 2023) Randall Holcombe, M.D., M.B.A., director of the UVM Cancer Center, commented to WCAX about the annual Women’s Health and Cancer Conference held at UVM on September 29.

(SEPTEMBER 30, 2023) The Vaccine Testing Center, led by Beth Kirkpatrick, M.D., is working with the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh on a promising tetravalent dengue vaccine in Bangladesh, according to The Daily Star (Dhaka, Banglasdesh).

(SEPTEMBER 28, 2023) Rachel Garfield, Ph.D., M.H.S., executive director of the Vermont Child Health Improvement Plan, spoke to WCAX-TV about a new report outlining steps to address a shortage of pediatric specialists.

(SEPTEMBER 27, 2023) Erin Manogaran, a first-year medical student at the Larner College of Medicine, has received a $10,000 Student Fellow Scholarship Award from EverythingALS, a citizen science research organization dedicated to developing a cure for the progressive neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, according to GlobeNewswire.

(SEPTEMBER 25, 2023) Mariah McNamara, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of emergency medicine at Larner and medical director of emergency medicine at the UVM Medical Center, commented to WCAX-TV about dispensing more Narcan to the community.

(SEPTEMBER 18, 2023) Larner’s Cunniff Laboratory, headed by Brian Cunniff, Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, was part of a collaboration that recently shared new preclinical data at the IASLC 2023 World Conference on Lung Cancer in Singapore, the (Malaysia) New Sarawak Tribune reported.

(SEPTEMBER 14, 2023) Francesca Arnoldy, the founding lead instructor of the University of Vermont’s End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate program, was quoted in a book excerpt in Dame magazine.

(SEPTEMBER 14, 2023) Results of a recent study on medicinal cannabis use are consistent with previous findings by Larner researchers Nicole Wershoven, Amanda Kennedy, Pharm.D., and Charles MacLean, M.D., that patients are reluctant to discuss their use of medical marijuana with their doctors, according to Cannabis News World.

(SEPTEMBER 14, 2023) Richard Wasserman, M.D., professor emeritus of pediatrics, is a co-author of a study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health that found that training primary care physicians to talk to young adults about safe social media use helped make a difference in those youths' online behavior six months later, according to UIC Today.

(SEPTEMBER 14, 2023) Pediatricians in the UVM Health Network spoke with the News & Citizen about telemedicine equipment that allows doctors at rural critical access hospitals to consult in real time with specialists at the UVM Medical Center about newborns with life-threatening conditions.

(SEPTEMBER 13, 2023) Geneticist Julie Dragon, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, is helping scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and Vermont Fish and Wildlife try to figure out why many brown bullhead fish in Lake Memphremagog have melanoma, according to Vermont Public.