Celebrating the UVM Larner College of Medicine Community

The beginning of the academic year is an exciting time for the Larner College of Medicine as we welcome new graduate students and the medical Class of 2028 and reconnect with our returning students. Our new students bring with them tremendous energy and a wonderous sense of awe.

Read the dean’s entire welcome message

On August 5, 2024, the Larner College of Medicine welcomed the Class of 2028 to the first official event of their medical school career: Orientation. This diverse cohort of 124 new medical students—selected from 9,301 total applicants—includes 26 percent Vermont residents, 27 percent LGBTQIA+, and 24 percent underrepresented in medicine (URiM), spanning 20 U.S. states.

Meet members of the incoming class

Shalina Nair, M.D., M.B.A., has been appointed as the new chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and the UVM Health Network, following a national search. Effective November 1, 2024, Nair will join UVM from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

Read more about Dr. Nair’s appointment

The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, along with UVM’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences and College of Education and Social Services, will soon launch a new mentorship and science enrichment cohort program, New American Youth on the Rise (NAYR), aimed at guiding girls from immigrant backgrounds into college careers in health sciences.

Read more about the NAYR program

VOICES OF THE COLLEGE

“I am passionate about science, in part, due to the creativity that has come from a lifetime of crafting.”
—Amber Goerner, Master’s Degree Candidate, Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Sciences (CMB)

MEET THE STAFF

Stephanie Knific, M.H.R.M., has joined the Larner Office of Medical Communications as executive director of strategic communications and marketing. She comes to UVM from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, where she served as director of university marketing and communications. “I am honored to work for an institution whose mission and values closely align with my own,” Knific said.

ACCOLADES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Investments in care and treatment for patients across Vermont and northern New York have earned the University of Vermont Medical Center’s Pulmonary Hypertension Program national accreditation as a Pulmonary Hypertension Care Center—a designation that highlights its clinical excellence and will improve access to national clinical trials and support groups for patients across the region.

In a recent paper on ethics and academic discourse published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Jan K. Carney, M.D., M.P.H., associate dean for public health and health policy and professor of medicine at the Larner College of Medicine, along with experts from various institutions, identify several key factors contributing to confusion and mistrust in medicine and science.

Eleven Larner medical student volunteers from the Class of 2027—Lajla Badnjević, Jeremiah Bates, Shannon Bennett, Alison Chivers, Aaron Dees, Lindsey Gleason, Ian Kent, Taylor Krause, Elizabeth Medve, Chloe Ruscilli, and Eli Zettler—recently served as Southern Vermont Area Health Education Center student mentors at the week-long summer Governor’s Institutes of Vermont Health and Medicine Institute.

Albert van der Vliet, Ph.D., M.S., professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, was recently elected as president of the Society for Redox Biology and Medicine (SfRBM). Cancer Center member Brian Cunniff, Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, has also joined the ranks of the SfRBM as a member of their council.

Cancer Center member Maura (“Molly”) Barry, M.D., associate professor of medicine, has been named executive director for the Women’s Health and Cancer Conference, to be held September 20 at the University of Vermont. Barry is a medical oncologist at the UVM Medical Center, where she practices head and neck and GI oncology.

Call for Submissions! To all Larner students, faculty, staff, and alumni: Our 2024 literary and arts magazine The Red Wheelbarrow is under way, and we’re looking for your short prose and artwork. See last year’s edition on Issuu. Submit your work here by September, 13th.

SAVE THE DATE

Vermont’s 2024 Pride Parade and Festival is Sunday, September 8, 12 noon–5 p.m., at Burlington’s downtown and Waterfront Park. The Larner College of Medicine and the UVM Health Network are sponsoring educational and fun events, including a film screening, speakers, resource fair and a float in the parade. March with us and show your Pride! 

The UVM Cancer Center’s Women’s Health and Cancer Conference: “Oncology and the Environment” will be held both in person at UVM’s Davis Center and virtually via Zoom on September 20, 2024. This free event is open to patients, health care providers, caregivers, and anyone looking to expand their knowledge of all aspects of the burden of cancer. Click here for details and registration.

LARNER IN THE NEWS

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Caporizzo Interviewed about Research Findings on Promising New Heart Disease Treatment

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Dorwart, Spottswood Quoted in Story on Children’s Mental Health Access

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