Celebrating the UVM Larner College of Medicine Community

On Sunday, September 9, the Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine, in collaboration with the UVM Cancer Center, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, UVM’s Prism organization, and the UVM Health Network, proudly participated in Burlington’s 41st annual Pride Parade.

Read about this year’s Pride celebration

On August 28, 2024, the UVM Office of the Vice President for Research and the Larner College of Medicine announced that UVM and BioInnovation Labs (BioLabs) will launch a dedicated incubator at UVM’s Colchester facility, in direct collaboration with Larner faculty. The facility will support entrepreneurs and startup companies specializing in all areas of life sciences research and development.

Read more about the UVM–BioLabs Partnership

Larner students work with real patients in the first year of medical school. In Doctoring in Vermont, a course that pairs students with physicians in the community, they provide direct patient care and practice history-taking and examination skills. First-year students also shadow nurses in the hospital, investigate social determinants of health, and do clinical work in community settings.

Read more about Doctoring in Vermont

VOICES OF THE COLLEGE

“YALL has quickly become a cornerstone of support, education, and empowerment for high school students in the Danbury community.”
—Javier Rincon, Class of 2025

ACCOLADES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Lewis First, M.D., M.S., professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine and the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital for the past 30 years, will be honored with the 2024 Clifford G. Grulee Award during the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Florida, September 27–October 2, 2024. 

Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Sean Diehl, Ph.D., in collaboration with scientists from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, has been awarded a $4.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant will support establishment of a pandemic preparedness research network, as well as dengue vaccine development in Diehl’s laboratory.

Victor May, Ph.D., professor of neurological sciences, has been awarded the Samuel W. Thayer Endowed Professorship of Anatomy. This professorship was established in 1910 to honor Dr. Samuel White Thayer, who graduated from the Vermont Medical College in 1838, was instrumental in re-establishing the Medical College at the University of Vermont in 1853, and served as dean for a total of 19 years.

In a new publication in the Journal of Cachexia and Sarcopenia of Muscle, Deena Snoke, Ph.D., a post-doc in the lab of Michael Toth, Ph.D., shares her research findings that lung cancer patients experience a 20 percent reduction in muscle fiber size after two months of conventional treatment despite no measurable changes in muscle at the whole-body or whole-tissue level.

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and UVM Cancer Center member Elias Klemperer, Ph.D., and colleagues have received a prestigious R01 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The $3.2 million award will support a comprehensive study on the dual use of cigarettes and electronic cigarettes, with potential implications for both clinical practice and regulatory policy.

SAVE THE DATE

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.

The University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine will host the Dean’s Celebration of Excellence in Research September 23–27, 2024. The annual weeklong event series showcases the exceptional endeavors of junior and senior faculty, postdoctoral trainees, and graduate students and serves as an extraordinary platform for academic discovery and collaboration.

Among the highest academic honors the University of Vermont can bestow on a faculty member, the investiture of William Tharp, M.D., associate professor of anesthesiology, as the inaugural holder of the Michael O’Reilly, M.D., M.S., Green and Gold Professorship in Anesthesiology will be held on Friday, October 4, at 10 a.m. in the Hoehl Gallery at the Larner College of Medicine.

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PUBLISHED RESEARCH

Bhatla A, Ding J, Mhaimeed O, Spaulding EM, Commodore-Mensah Y, Plante TB, Shan R, Marvel FA, Martin SS. Patterns of Telehealth Visits After the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Individuals With or at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease in the United States. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Sep 3;13(17):e036475. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.124.036475. Epub 2024 Aug 29. PMID: 39206726.

Copeland WE, Keen R, Tong G, Shanahan L. Negative Life Events and Emotional Symptoms From Ages 2 to 30 Years. JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(8):e2429448. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.29448.

de Jager E, Osman SY, Sheu C, Moberg E, Ye J, Liu Y, Cohen ME, Burstin HR, Hoyt DB, Schoenfeld AJ, Haider AH, Ko CY, Maggard-Gibbons MA, Weissman JS, Britt LD. Identifying Population-Level and Within-Hospital Disparities in Surgical Care. J Am Coll Surg. 2024 Sep 1;239(3):223-233. doi: 10.1097/XCS.0000000000001113. Epub 2024 May 9. PMID: 38722036.

Gaalema DE, Khadanga S, Savage PD, Yant B, Katz BR, DeSarno M, Ades PA. Improving Cardiac Rehabilitation Adherence in Patients With Lower Socioeconomic Status: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Sep 1;184(9):1095-1104. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.3338. PMID: 39037811; PMCID: PMC11264079.

Gross RS, Thaweethai T, Kleinman LC, Snowden JN, Rosenzweig EB, Milner JD, Tantisira KG, Rhee KE, Jernigan TL, Kinser PA, Salisbury AL, Warburton D, Mohandas S, Wood JC, Newburger JW, Truong DT, Flaherman VJ, Metz TD, Karlson EW, Chibnik LB, Pant DB, Krishnamoorthy A, Gallagher R, Lamendola-Essel MF, Hasson DC, Katz SD, Yin S, Dreyer BP, Carmilani M, Coombs K, Fitzgerald ML, Güthe N, Hornig M, Letts RJ, Peddie AK, Taylor BD, Foulkes AS, Stockwell MS; RECOVER- Pediatrics Consortium; RECOVER-Pediatrics Group Authors; Balaraman V, Bogie A, Bukulmez H, Dozor AJ, Eckrich D, Elliott AJ, Evans DN, Farkas JS, Faustino EVS, Fischer L, Gaur S, Harahsheh AS, Hasan UN, Hsia DS, Huerta-Montañez G, Hummel KD, Kadish MP, Kaelber DC, Krishnan S, Kosut JS, Larrabee J, Lim PPC, Michelow IC, Oliveira CR, Raissy H, Rosario-Pabon Z, Ross JL, Sato AI, Stevenson MD, Talavera-Barber MM, Teufel RJ, Weakley KE, Zimmerman E, Bind MC, Chan J, Guan Z, Morse RE, Reeder HT, Akshoomoff N, Aschner JL, Bhattacharjee R, Cottrell LA, Cowan K, D'Sa VA, Fiks AG, Gennaro ML, Irby K, Khare M, Guttierrez JL, McCulloh RJ, Narang S, Ness-Cochinwala M, Nolan S, Palumbo P, Ryu J, Salazar JC, Selvarangan R, Stein CR, Werzberger A, Zempsky WT, Aupperle R, Baker FC, Banich MT, Barch DM, Baskin-Sommers A, Bjork JM, Bookheimer SY, Brown SA, Casey BJ, Chang L, Clark DB, Dale AM, Dapretto M, Ernst TM, Fair DA, Feldstein Ewing SW, Foxe JJ, Freedman EG, Friedman NP, Garavan H, Gee DG, Gonzalez R, Gray KM, Heitzeg MM, Herting MM, Jacobus J, Laird AR, Larson CL, Lisdahl KM, Luciana M, Luna B, Madden PAF, McGlade EC, Müller-Oehring EM, Nagel BJ, Neale MC, Paulus MP, Potter AS, Renshaw PF, Sowell ER, Squeglia LM, Tapert S, Uddin LQ, Wilson S, Yurgelun-Todd DA. Characterizing Long COVID in Children and Adolescents. JAMA. 2024 Aug 21:e2412747. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.12747. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39196964; PMCID: PMC11339705.

Loo YK, Wilkinson K, Harkness T, Howard G, Howard VJ, Judd SE, Zakai NA, Muntner P, Min L, Oparil S, Plante TB. Hypertension Severity as Quantified by Hypertension Daily Dose and Blood Pressure With Risk of Stroke in REGARDS. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Sep 3;13(17):e033401. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.123.033401. Epub 2024 Aug 19. PMID: 39158538.

O’Leary A, Lahey T, Lovato J, Loftness B, Douglas A, Skelton J, Cohen JG, Copeland WE, McGinnis RS, McGinnis EW. Using Wearable Digital Devices to Screen Children for Mental Health Conditions: Ethical Promises and Challenges. Sensors (Basel). 2024 May 18;24(10):3214. doi: 10.3390/s24103214. PMID: 38794067; PMCID: PMC11125700.

Oken AC, Lisi NE, Krishnamurthy I, McCarthy AE, Godsey MH, Glasfeld A, Mansoor SE. High-affinity agonism at the P2X7 receptor is mediated by three residues outside the orthosteric pocket. Nat Commun. 2024 Aug 6;15(1):6662. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-50771-6. PMID: 39107314; PMCID: PMC11303814.

Parikh SJ, Edara S, Deodhar S, Singh AK, Maekawa K, Zhang Q, Glass KC, Shah MB. Structural and biophysical analysis of cytochrome P450 2C9*14 and *27 variants in complex with losartan. J Inorg Biochem. 2024 Sep;258:112622. doi: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2024.112622. Epub 2024 May 31. PMID: 38852293; PMCID: PMC11285081.

Soll RF, Edwards EM. Cooling for Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy: From Evidence to Practice. Pediatrics. 2024 Sep 1;154(3):e2024066681. doi: 10.1542/peds.2024-066681. PMID: 39193625.

Stout NK, Miglioretti DL, Su YR, Lee CI, Abraham L, Alagoz O, de Koning HJ, Hampton JM, Henderson L, Lowry KP, Mandelblatt JS, Onega T, Schechter CB, Sprague BL, Stein S, Trentham-Dietz A, van Ravesteyn NT, Wernli KJ, Kerlikowske K, Tosteson ANA. Breast Cancer Screening Using Mammography, Digital Breast Tomosynthesis, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Breast Density. JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Aug 26:e244224. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.4224. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39186304; PMCID: PMC11348087.

Sullivan C, Brillhart A, Duplessis RJ, Stein E, Schlein SM. Acute Coronary Syndrome at Altitude: Diagnostic Dilemma on Aconcagua Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound. Wilderness Environ Med. 2024 Sep;35(3):356-360. doi: 10.1177/10806032241249128. Epub 2024 May 8. PMID: 38720618.

Zhou A, Sharma A, Kuhnell D, Hinrichs BH, Kendler A, Wang J, Dillehey- McKillip K, Tang AL, Takiar V, Wise-Draper TM, Langevin SM. Multimodal assessment of high-risk human papillomavirus in sinonasal squamous cell carcinoma. Pathol Res Pract. 2024 Sep;261:155486. doi: 10.1016/j.prp.2024.155486. Epub 2024 Jul 23. PMID: 39088875.

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