Meet the Medical Class of 2030

The first year of medical school is under way for the University of Vermont’s newest future doctors. The 124 students in the Larner College of Medicine Class of 2030 are among the university’s highest-achieving incoming class, and the most selective class Larner has ever assembled, chosen from a record-breaking pool of 11,609 medical school applicants. Meet some members of Larner's Class of 2030.

Read about some of the medical students

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C. diff Prevention Vaccine Clinical Trial

Researchers at the University of Vermont’s Vaccine Testing Center are investigating a vaccine that may help prevent Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infection. While C. diff can affect anyone, older adults are at greatest risk, particularly those who have recently used antibiotics or experienced extended hospital stays.

Read about the trial and learn how to participate

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UVM Health Opens Suicide Care Clinic

UVM Health has opened a specialized clinic at 1 Prospect Street in Burlington to expand access to effective treatment and establish a new local model for suicide care. Led by Craig Bryan, Psy.D., the Asha Clinic’s team of clinical experts will provide leading-edge therapies to people struggling with suicidal thoughts and behaviors or mental health conditions associated with elevated suicide risk.

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Benefits of School-Based Asthma Care

Children with asthma sleep better at night and are more successful in school when someone at their school helps them take their asthma medicine. That’s the premise behind a new project called School-Based Asthma Therapy (SBAT) that brings young people’s asthma care to schools in rural Vermont. Medical and D.N.P. students are assisting by working with school nurses and primary care providers.

LARNER VOICES

“After all, the art of storytelling is intertwined with medicine. I am excited for the Arts@Larner committee to emerge and grow in partnership with several interdisciplinary members of the Larner community.”
– Emily Hovan ’28

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ACCOLADES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

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Each fall, the Larner College of Medicine recognizes, honors, and inducts those in the community who have demonstrated core principles of the college. On September 2, students, faculty, and medical residents were honored in the Hoehl Gallery with inductions into the Aequitas Health Honor Society, the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and the Gold Humanism Honor Society.

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Larner Associate Professor of Pediatrics Heidi Schumacher, M.D., recently appeared in a short video created by the School Friendly Health Systems National Collaborative. Additionally, she was a featured speaker at the 2026 School Wellness Symposium held in June in Washington, D.C., to highlight the Child Health Advances Measured in Practice (CHAMP) project as well as the new documentary film Every Day Counts.

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Larner Associate Professor of Neurological Sciences Rebecca Burch, M.D., is a co-author of a joint clinical practice guideline update to help clinicians determine which medications may be most effective in preventing migraine in adults. Issued by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the American Headache Society (AHS), the new guideline is an update to the AAN and AHS 2012 guideline.

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In a ceremony held on July 7, 2026, UVM Health officially dedicated the Philip A. Ades, M.D., Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, recognizing the lasting legacy of one of the nation’s pioneers in cardiac rehabilitation. Dr. Ades, who passed away in 2024, was a professor of medicine at Larner and founded the University of Vermont Medical Center’s cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention program in 1984.

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On Tuesday, August 25, UVM President Marlene Tromp, Ph.D., announced the recipients of the President’s Our Common Ground Staff Award. Two of the five awardees are Larner community members: Christine Gallese, assistant director of the Vermont Child Health Improvement Program; and Vicki Gilwee, executive assistant to Larner Dean and UVM Chief Medical Affairs Officer Richard L. Page, M.D.