Celebrating the UVM Larner College of Medicine Community

The University of Vermont Cancer Center (UVMCC) held its inaugural Rural Health and Cancer Conference June 19–21 in Burlington. UVMCC Director Randall Holcombe, M.D., and Larner College of Medicine Dean Richard L. Page, M.D., welcomed 71 professionals from across the country and more than a dozen speakers for keynotes and sessions to discuss strategies for improving cancer treatment and care in rural communities.

Read more about the Rural Health and Cancer Conference

Money magazine has ranked the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital among the nation’s best for pediatric care. Children’s received an “A” grade overall and an “A” grade for price transparency, which the magazine rates as part of its mission to empower people by providing education and information to help them take control of their personal health care finances.

Read more about the UVM Children's Hospital

Larner Associate Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine Ramsey Herrington, M.D., has been appointed chief physician executive of the University of Vermont (UVM) Health Network, president and CEO of the UVM Health Network Medical Group, and senior associate dean of clinical affairs at the Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine, effective July 7, 2025.

Read more about Dr. Herrington’s new roles

VOICES OF THE COLLEGE

“The connections I’ve made with undergraduate students, lab technicians, fellow graduate students, core facility staff, and faculty at UVM have been invaluable to both the success of my project and the growth of my passion for science.”

— Abby Myers, Ph.D. student, Neuroscience Graduate Program 

ACCOLADES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

On June 13, the third annual Larner College of Medicine blood drive drew in donations from 67 registrants throughout the day. As many in the community are aware, this cause is important to Dean Richard L. Page, M.D. (pictured at left, left), whose personal experience through his granddaughter’s story inspired him to personally donate and to advocate for others to give blood if they are able.

From July 7 to 10, more than 150 leading research experts and investigators will be attending the 20th anniversary of the Stem Cells, Cell Therapies, and Bioengineering in Lung Biology and Diseases Conference hosted at the University of Vermont. The first conference began in 2005 at UVM under the leadership of Dan Weiss, M.D., Larner professor of medicine in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine.

UVM Cancer Center member Reem Aboushousha, Ph.D., a faculty scientist in the Janssen-Heininger lab, was recently awarded a Parker B. Francis Fellowship from the Francis Family Foundation. The new funding will enable her to study lung cancer; specifically, the role of glutathione S-transferase P and S-glutathionylation in chemotherapy resistance in lung adenocarcinoma.

For Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Awareness Month, the May 27 episode of the University of Vermont’s Across the Fence program features Rup Tandan, M.D., professor emeritus of neurological sciences at the Larner College of Medicine, discussing the symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment for this progressive, fatal, neurodegenerative disorder of upper and lower motor neurons.

Last month, around 60 members of the Larner community gathered for the second annual ice cream social fundraiser known as “Empty Bowls,” sponsored by the Larner Medical Student Council. Dozens of handmade bowls, many crafted by Larner medical student Michael Greenberg ’27 (pictured at left, center) and other local pottery students, were sold to raise more than $800 for partner Feeding Chittenden.

 

SAVE THE DATE

UVM Campus | All UVM administrative offices closed on Friday, July 4, Independence Day in the United States, a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

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