UVM Cancer Center to Launch CAR T-Cell Program |
Starting this spring, the UVM Cancer Center will offer a novel, highly effective form of cancer treatment called CAR T-cell therapy. The UVM Cancer Center will be the only health care institution in Vermont and northern New York to provide this treatment. This novel therapy turns patient's T-cells into 'personalized cancer-killing machines.'
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| | Celebrating the Completion of Foundations Curriculum |
Faculty, staff, and students gathered to honor a milestone in the Class of 2025’s medical education journey at the Foundations Awards Celebration on January 26, 2023. The annual event marks the medical students’ completion of Foundations—the first level of the Vermont Integrated Curriculum—and recognizes the students’ accomplishments and the teachers and staff who helped them along the way.
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| Jan Carney, M.D., M.P.H., Comments on Medical Misinformation |
Faculty, staff, and students gathered to honor a milestone in the Class of 2025’s medical education journey at the Foundations Awards Celebration on January 26, 2023. The annual event marks the medical students’ completion of Foundations—the first level of the Vermont Integrated Curriculum—and recognizes the students’ accomplishments and the teachers and staff who helped them along the way.
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Learn about UVM’s first African American medical students in “The Forerunners,” from the current issue of Vermont Medicine magazine.
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ACCOLADES AND APPOINTMENTS
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Toishi Sharma, M.B.B.S., a cardiovascular fellow in the Department of Medicine, won first place in the Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI) of Vermont’s fourth annual Viridis Montis Early Career Investigator Challenge. Dr. Sharma receives a $5,000 prize for her research project titled “Platelet FcyRIIa expression, a powerful marker of cardiovascular risk in women.” Read more
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The Larner medical Class of 2025 elected Justin Henningsen as the 2023-2024 president-elect of the Medical Student Council, effective March 17, 2023 (Match Day). In addition, current president-elect Elise Prehoda, Class of 2024 medical student, will transition on Match Day into her new role as the 2023-2024 student body and student council president. Read more
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Sara Tourville, medical student coordinator for the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, was honored by the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) with the annual Donna Wachter Clerkship Coordinator Award. The award recognizes an outstanding Ob-Gyn clerkship coordinator as identified by the individual’s department chair. Read more
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| May 1-5, 2023 is Professionalism Week
Professionalism guides our passion for lifelong learning and improvement. Join us for a week of events and awards as we celebrate our commitment to cultural humility, kindness and respect during Professionalism Week: May 1-5, 2023. Read more
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Dixon AE, Que LG, Kalhan R, Dransfield MT, Rogers L, Gerald LB, Kraft M, Krishnan JA, Johnson O, Hazucha H, Roy G, Holbrook JT, Wise RA. Roflumilast May Increase Risk of Exacerbations When Used to Treat Poorly Controlled Asthma in People with Obesity. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2023 Feb;20(2):206-214. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202204-368OC. PMID: 36170654.
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Infeld M, Wahlberg K, Cicero J, Plante TB, Meagher S, Novelli A, Habel N, Krishnan AM, Silverman DN, LeWinter MM, Lustgarten DL, Meyer M. Effect of Personalized Accelerated Pacing on Quality of Life, Physical Activity, and Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Preclinical and Overt Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: The myPACE Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Cardiol. 2023 Feb 1. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2022.5320. [Epub ahead of print.] PMID: 36723919.
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