Celebrating the UVM Larner College of Medicine Community

Ten Class of 2028 medical students are participating in the 2025–26 Schweitzer Fellowship Program, carrying out sustainable, evidence-based projects that address health disparities in the local community. Projects include bringing arts and crafts to hospitalized children, establishing a wound care program for unhoused people, and mental health mentorship for refugee youth.

Read more about the Schweitzer Fellows and their projects

Students from rural New England high schools attended the Larner College of Medicine’s Stem Cells, Cell Therapies, and Bioengineering in Lung Biology and Diseases conference at no charge on July 7. They learned advanced scientific techniques alongside local, national, and international researchers, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows and explored biomedical research career pathways.

Read more about high schoolers at the conference

Meet Todd Clason, M.Sc., research assistant professor of pharmacology and director of the Customized Physiology and Imaging Core (CPIC) of the Vermont Center for Cardiovascular and Brain Health at the Larner College of Medicine. The CPIC provides high-level pre- and post-experiment research imaging and electrophysiology instrumentation to researchers who use the devices to evaluate living systems.

Read more about Clason and CPIC

LARNER VOICES

“If even one student or patient walked away with a renewed relationship to their body and well-being, then the work was worthwhile.”

— Kyle Gorman, Class of 2026 

ACCOLADES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

A new study launched by Melanie Bui, M.D., Ph.D. (pictured at left, left), associate professor of medicine, and Steven Roberts, Ph.D. (pictured at left, right), associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, seeks insights into why Vermont has one of the highest rates of melanoma in the country. The research is funded by a pilot award of $20,000 through the UVM Cancer Center’s Population Sciences and Cancer Outcomes program.

Marissa Birne, M.Ed., associate director of education at the UVM Center on Aging, has been selected for a 2025–26 Eisner Prize Fellowship, a year-long program designed to support leaders who are pioneering innovations in intergenerational connection. Selected from a highly competitive applicant pool, fellows receive $50,000 to support their project proposal.

Deena Snoke, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the Toth Lab and a UVM Cancer Center member, was one of eight postdoctoral fellows—and the first from UVM—invited to the Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer training hosted by Yale in June. Additionally, Snoke was recently awarded the Cancer Center’s Postdoctoral Research Excellence Award, which grants $10,000 per year for three years for research and training activities.

For Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, the June 12 episode of the University of Vermont’s Across the Fence program features UVM Cancer Center members Steven Ades, M.D., professor of medicine (pictured at left, left), and Nataniel Lester-Coll, M.D. (pictured at left, right), associate professor and division chief of radiation oncology, discussing prostate cancer risk factors, symptoms, and treatments.

On June 13 eight medical students from the Larner Class of 2028 volunteered at the Intervale Conservation Nursery for their end-of-year Community Service Day project. Following an introduction on how to distinguish between weeds and valuable growth led by Intervale Center Production Manager Ben Fishbein, the volunteers cleared out two full beds of weeds in two hours.

 

SAVE THE DATE

Waterfront Park, Burlington | Dragon Boat Festival & Races to benefit breast cancer survivors. Racing Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday. Register to paddle or volunteer—or just enjoy food, activities, and entertainment.

Virtual | Teaching Academy talk: “Google Scholar Says I Did What? Academic Identity Theft and How to Stop It” by Gary Atwood, M.A., M.L.I.S., of the UVM Dana Health Sciences Library, Wednesday, August 6, 12:00 p.m.

Various Locations | The Larner College of Medicine community welcomes our new first-year medical students to Orientation, August 11–15, with on-campus sessions, recreational activities, community service, and a student resource fair.

LARNER IN THE NEWS

WCAX-TV
Klemperer Interviewed about Effective Treatment for Youth who Smoke and Vape

NBC5
Sprouse Blum Discusses Migraine for Migraine Awareness Month

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PUBLICATIONS

Adams U, Luo WY, Wang KC, Li D, Udekwu PO, Charles A. Identifying the Surgical to Nonsurgical Care Transition for Trauma Patients: Time to Redesign Trauma Workflow. Am Surg. 2025 Jun 27:31348251353804. doi: 10.1177/00031348251353804. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40575960.

Craig AK, Cutler A, Kerecman J, Melendi M, Seften LM, Ryzewski M, Zanno A, O'Reilly D. Association of low hospital birth volume and adverse short-term outcomes for neonates treated with therapeutic hypothermia in rural states. J Perinatol. 2025 Jul 6. doi: 10.1038/s41372-025-02352-8. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40617961.

Croarkin PE, Sutherland I, Ho MF. Psychedelic Therapeutics for Adolescents: Ethics, Safety, Opportunities, and Equipoise. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2025 Jul;64(7):756-758. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2024.12.003. Epub 2024 Dec 19. PMID: 39709009.

Dribin TE, Sampson HA, Zhang Y, Boyd S, Zhang N, Michelson KA, Neuman MI, Brousseau DC, Mistry RD, Freedman SB, Aronson PL, Bergmann KR, Boswell B, Chinta SS, Chua WJ, Cohen AR, Cohen JS, Daggett A, Davis JR, Freeman JF, Khanna K, Knoles CL, Kwan KY, Larsen CD, Lee J, Lubell TR, Metcalf AM, Moake MM, Nesiama JO, Ngo TL, Pulcini CD, Russo CJ, Singh NV, Srivastava G, Strutt J, Thapar V, Wyst CV, Walsh PS, Wolnerman Y, Schnadower D; Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Timing of repeat epinephrine to inform paediatric anaphylaxis observation periods: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2025 Jul;9(7):484-496. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(25)00139-7. PMID: 40506197.

Feldman R, Faine B, Rech MA, Zimmerman DE, Flack T, Howington GT, Laub J, Porter B, Slocum GW, Zepeski A, Santiago RD, Woolum J, Krenz J, Sarangarm P, Koehl J. CuratED: The emergency medicine pharmacotherapy literature of 2024. Am J Emerg Med. 2025 Jul;93:146-153. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2025.03.046. Epub 2025 Mar 24. PMID: 40203497.

Foti K, Colantonio LD, Huang L, Plante TB, Ghazi L, Hardy ST, Levitan EB, Safford MM, Muntner P. Leading Causes of Death Among US Adults with and without Hypertension: Data from the REGARDS Study. Am J Hypertens. 2025 Jun 28:hpaf115. doi: 10.1093/ajh/hpaf115. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40580116.

Horn JW, Fohner A, Tracy R, Adams HHH, Djousse L, Romundstad S, Janszky I, Longstreth WT Jr, Mukamal KJ. Albuminuria, structural brain findings and Circulating biomarkers of brain injury in older adults. Sci Rep. 2025 Jul 1;15(1):22172. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-06448-1. PMID: 40596519; PMCID: PMC12217312.

Lu H, Rolls ET, Liu H, Stein DJ, Sahakian BJ, Elliott R, Jia T, Xie C, Xiang S, Wang N, Banaschewski T, Bokde ALW, Desrivières S, Flor H, Grigis A, Garavan H, Heinz A, Brühl R, Martinot JL, Martinot MP, Artiges E, Nees F, Orfanos DP, Lemaitre H, Poustka L, Hohmann S, Holz N, Fröhner JH, Smolka MN, Vaidya N, Walter H, Whelan R, Schumann G, Feng J, Luo Q; IMAGEN Consortium. Genetic risk- dependent brain markers of resilience to childhood Trauma. Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 5;16(1):6219. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-61471-0. PMID: 40617820; PMCID: PMC12228777.

Morales-Ghinaglia M, He F, Calhoun SL, Rahawi AH, Fang J, Vgontzas AN, Liao D, Bixler EO, Younes M, Ricci A, Fernandez-Mendoza J. Association of Sleep Spindle Activity with executive functioning and intellectual ability in children and adolescents. Sleep. 2025 Jul 7:zsaf184. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsaf184. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40621998.

Rustad JL, Lipsky A, Herrington H, Weismann A. Tele-Flexible Laryngoscopy Enables Remote Specialty Airway Evaluation in Rural Emergency Department. Laryngoscope. 2025 Jul 10. doi: 10.1002/lary.32425. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40637487.

Schultz KS, Bansal VV, Wach MM, Bhutiani N, Godley FA 4th, Wang JJ, Waheed MT, Buchheit JT, Papai E, Campbell S, Schleimer LE, Su DG, Turaga KK, Gunderson CG, White MG, Uppal A, Raghav KPS, Labow DM, Sarpel U, Shergill AP, Shen JP, Eng C, Foote MB, Baumgartner JM; Peritoneal Surface Malignancies (PSM) Consortium Group. Consensus Guideline for the Management of Colorectal Cancer with Peritoneal Metastases. Ann Surg Oncol. 2025 Jun 25. doi: 10.1245/s10434-025-17363-0. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40560497.

Xiang S, Xie C, Xiao X, Banaschewski T, Barker GJ, Bokde ALW, Flor H, Grigis A, Garavan H, Gowland P, Heinz A, Brühl R, Martinot JL, Martinot MP, Penttilä J, Artiges E, Nees F, Orfanos DP, Poustka L, Hohmann S, Holz N, Baeuchl C, Smolka MN, Vaidya N, Walter H, Whelan R, Bobou M, Broulidakis J, van Noort BM, Stringaris A, Zhang Z, Robinson L, Winterer J, Zhang Y, King S, Schmidt U, Sinclair J, Desrivières S, Schumann G, Becker B, Robbins TW, Jia T, Feng J; IMAGEN Consortium and Stratify Consortium. Distinct neural networks of emotional valence and uncertainty in the human amygdala underlying different mental disorders. Sci Bull (Beijing). 2025 Jul 15;70(13):2061-2065. doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2025.02.026. Epub 2025 Feb 18. PMID: 40016035.

Young B, Neklason DW, Clark K, Feng BJ, Keener MB, Tuohy TM, Wood A, McKinnon WC, Greenblatt MS, Tavtigian SV. Functional Characterization of a Genetic Variant in the 5' UTR of APC 1B Promoter in a Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Family. Am J Med Genet A. 2025 Jul;197(7):e63992. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.63992. Epub 2025 Mar 10. PMID: 40062631.

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