Celebrating the UVM Larner College of Medicine Community
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Larner Scientists Decode Impact of Exercise |
In a paper published May 1 in Nature Communications, researchers including Larner College of Medicine scientists Russell Tracy, Ph.D., Jessica Rooney, M.P.H., Elaine Cornell, Nicole Gagne, and Sandy May laid out preliminary findings of a groundbreaking MoTrPAC study on the molecular effects of exercise on healthy adults and children, considering factors like age, race, and gender.
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Mobile Health Clinic Project |
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A Gold Foundation fellowship project by Lindsay Aldrich ’25 and Richard Vuong ’25 has led to an innovative new health care delivery vehicle and a novel technology agreement between UVM’s biomedical engineering design hub and the UVM Health Network. The project aims to bring the doctor’s office to people living in Vermont’s rural regions.
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Larner’s On-Campus M.M.S. |
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Christoph Niederhauser, M.S., graduated from the Larner College of Medicine’s master of medical science (M.M.S.) program in 2020, crediting that experience as key in his preparation for medical school at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. Niederhauser discusses how the M.M.S. program helped him get where he is today.
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| "Four weeks, five European countries, and 5,000 calories/day seemed like the only logical way to celebrate four years of sacrifice."
—Edom Girma, Class of 2024
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Immunobiologist Tina Thornton, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, is co-director of I-Trep, a UVM-based biomedical entrepreneurship training initiative, and UVM faculty lead of the Interior Northeast I-Corps Hub, which offers entrepreneurship training for student, postdoc, faculty, and other scientists and engineers. She was recently featured in an I-Corps Hub Instructor Spotlight in which she spoke about her experience guiding aspiring UVM entrepreneurs.
Read more about Thornton and UVM entrepreneurship
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ACCOLADES & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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The University of Vermont has selected Stephen Everse, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry at the Larner College of Medicine, for the Distinguished University Citizenship and Service Award. This award acknowledges exceptional service by a UVM faculty member who is recognized as a true university citizen for contributions to institutional building at the university.
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Larner Class of 2026 medical student Anika Advant won the best student research award at the Northern New England CO-OP Practice and Community Based Research Network 44th Annual Meeting in January, for her poster titled “Identifying Barriers and Facilitators to Awareness and Rural Vermont Participation in Cancer Clinical Trials.”
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More than 200 health care professionals and others who care for older adults participated in the Vermont Geriatric Conference on April 16. Isaura Menzies, M.D., M.P.H., and Katherine Martin coordinated the conference, which featured a variety of Larner College of Medicine experts in geriatric medicine, movement disorders, emergency medicine, and more.
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Beth Kirkpatrick, M.D., professor and chair of microbiology and molecular genetics, joined infectious disease physicians, virologists, epidemiologists, and other scientists from across the globe at the World Health Organization’s Polio Research Committee (PRC) meeting in April in Geneva, Switzerland. The PRC is part of the public-private partnership Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
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On March 21, the Surgery Senior Major Scientific Program showcased the scholarly work of 10 Larner Class of 2024 students who will be specializing in surgery following graduation: Kali Amoah, Natalie Bales, Sydney Cardozo, Rachel Carpenter, Amanda Galenkamp, Keira Goodell, Will Robinson, Warrick Sehene, Brian Shaw, and Max Tulimieri. Four were recognized for their outstanding scientific projects with Senior Surgery Major Awards.
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Please join Dean Richard L. Page on Thursday, May 9, at 3:00 p.m., in the Sullivan Classroom (MedEd 200) for the Larner College of Medicine’s Professionalism Awards Presentation and Celebration honoring the recipients of the 2024 Dean’s Awards for Professionalism, followed by a reception with refreshments in the Hoehl Gallery. View details and schedule of events.
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Proposals for the 2024 Health Equity Summit: “Building Solidarity—Sustainable Pathways Toward Health Equity” are invited by May 15. Competitive proposals are thought provoking and accessible to a broad technical and lay audience. Drop-in sessions are available for more information on submitting a proposal.
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One hundred twenty-one graduating students will receive their M.D. degrees at the Larner College of Medicine Ceremony for the Class of 2024 on Sunday, May 19, at 3:00 p.m. in Ira Allen Chapel. This ticketed event will be livestreamed for those unable to attend in person. View details about the ceremony.
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Couch CA, Ament Z, Patki A, Kijpaisalratana N, Bhave V, Jones AC, Armstrong ND, Cushman M, Kimberly WT, Irvin MR. Sex-Associated Metabolites and Incident Stroke, Incident Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension, and Chronic Kidney Disease in the REGARDS Cohort. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Apr 30:e032643. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.123.032643. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38686877.
Devlin LA, Hu Z, Merhar SL, Ounpraseuth ST, Simon AE, Lee JY, Das A, Crawford MM, Greenberg RG, Smith PB, Higgins RD, Walsh MC, Rice W, Paul DA, Maxwell JR, Fung CM, Wright T, Ross J, McAllister JM, Crowley M, Shaikh SK, Christ L, Brown J, Riccio J, Wong Ramsey K, Braswell EF, Tucker L, McAlmon K, Dummula K, Weiner J, White JR, Newman S, Snowden JN, Young LW; Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD Neonatal Research Network and NIH Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program Institutional Development Award States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network. Influence of Eat, Sleep, and Console on Infants Pharmacologically Treated for Opioid Withdrawal: A Post Hoc Subgroup Analysis of the ESC-NOW Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2024 Apr 15:e240544. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.0544. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38619854; PMCID: PMC11019446.
Goyal RK, Zhang J, Davis KL, Sluga-O'Callaghan M, Kaufman PA. Real-world treatment patterns and clinical outcomes in patients treated with eribulin after prior phosphoinositide 3-Kinase inhibitor treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2024 May;205(1):201-210. doi: 10.1007/s10549-023-07080-1. Epub 2024 Feb 4. PMID: 38310616.
Hasan MM, Mattice EB, Teixeira JE, Jumani RS, Stebbins EE, Klopfer CE, Franco SE, Love MS, McNamara CW, Huston CD. Cryptosporidium life cycle small molecule probing implicates translational repression and an Apetala 2 transcription factor in macrogamont differentiation. PLoS Pathog. 2024 Apr 26;20(4):e1011906. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1011906. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38669269.
Honce R, Vazquez-Pagan A, Livingston B, Mandarano AH, Wilander BA, Cherry S, Hargest V, Sharp B, Brigleb PH, Kirkpatrick Roubidoux E, Van de Velde LA, Skinner RC, McGargill MA, Thomas PG, Schultz-Cherry S. Diet switch pre- vaccination improves immune response and metabolic status in formerly obese mice. Nat Microbiol. 2024 Apr 18. doi: 10.1038/s41564-024-01677-y. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38637722.
Nes E, Chugh PV, Keefe G, Culbreath K, Morrow KA, Ehret DEY, Soll RF, Horbar JD, Harting MT, Lally KP, Modi BP, Jaksic T, Edwards EM. Predictors of Mortality in Very Low Birth Weight Neonates With Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. J Pediatr Surg. 2024 May;59(5):818-824. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2024.01.032. Epub 2024 Feb 1. PMID: 38368194.
Pilcher F, Shubkin CD, Marcolini E, Coleman M, Lahey T. Ethical responses to violence toward health care workers. J Hosp Med. 2024 Apr 2. doi: 10.1002/jhm.13355. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38566345.
Riser E, Kennedy AG, Holterman LA, Brooklyn J, Maruti S, Sobel HG. Preparing Medical Students to Care for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder: Buprenorphine Waiver Training in Undergraduate Medical Education. Acad Psychiatry. 2024 Apr 29. doi: 10.1007/s40596-024-01968-w. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38684575.
Sprague BL, Nowak SA, Ahern TP, Herschorn SD, Kaufman PA, Odde C, Perry H, Sowden MM, Vacek PM, Weaver DL. Long-term Mammography Screening Trends and Predictors of Return to Screening after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results from a Statewide Registry. Radiol Imaging Cancer. 2024 May;6(3):e230161. doi: 10.1148/rycan.230161. PMID: 38578209.
Stoutenburg E, Sherman S, Bravo M, Howard V, Mukaz DK, Cushman M, Zakai NA, Judd S, Plante TB. Factor VIII and Incident Hypertension in Black and White Adults: The REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Cohort. Am J Hypertens. 2024 Apr 20:hpae046. doi: 10.1093/ajh/hpae046. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38642910.
Trentham-Dietz A, Chapman CH, Jayasekera J, Lowry KP, Heckman-Stoddard BM, Hampton JM, Caswell-Jin JL, Gangnon RE, Lu Y, Huang H, Stein S, Sun L, Gil Quessep EJ, Yang Y, Lu Y, Song J, Muñoz DF, Li Y, Kurian AW, Kerlikowske K, O'Meara ES, Sprague BL, Tosteson ANA, Feuer EJ, Berry D, Plevritis SK, Huang X, de Koning HJ, van Ravesteyn NT, Lee SJ, Alagoz O, Schechter CB, Stout NK, Miglioretti DL, Mandelblatt JS. Collaborative Modeling to Compare Different Breast Cancer Screening Strategies: A Decision Analysis for the US Preventive Services Task Force. JAMA. 2024 Apr 30. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.24766. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38687505.
Twichell S, Ashoor I, Boynton S, Dharnidharka V, Kizilbash S, Erez DL, Smith J; NAPRTCS Investigators. COVID-19 disease among children and young adults enrolled in the North American Pediatric Renal Trials and Collaborative Studies registry. Pediatr Nephrol. 2024 May; 39(5):1459-1468. doi: 10.1007/s00467-023-06241-0. Epub 2023 Dec 11. PMID: 38082091.
Whitledge JD, Burns MM. Do Asymptomatic Patients Need Endoscopy after Caustic Ingestion? J Med Toxicol. 2024 Apr 29. doi: 10.1007/s13181-024-01009-w. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38683415.
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