Celebrating the UVM Larner College of Medicine Community

What a glorious Commencement weekend we enjoyed this year. From a sunny morning on the University Green celebrating UVM undergraduates, to the hooding ceremony at The Robert E. Miller Expo Centre honoring more than 300 recipients of doctoral and master’s degrees (including 50 from Larner programs), to a joyful Commencement ceremony for our medical graduates in Ira Allen Chapel, we celebrated a remarkable Class of 2026. 

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The Larner College of Medicine celebrated the next generation of biomedical scientists and health professionals at commencement ceremonies on May 16 and 17. The graduates include 50 students in six Larner-affiliated master’s and doctoral programs and 119 who received doctor of medicine degrees. Meet some members of the Larner Class of 2026.

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For Professionalism Week May 4–8, members of the Larner College of Medicine community both celebrated role models and renewed their own commitment to Larner’s tenets of professionalism. Event highlights included dedication of a new mosaic by artist Mary Lacy, a keynote on “Professionalism During Tumultuous Times,” and an awards ceremony to recognize exemplars of professionalism at Larner.

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Matthew Caporizzo, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, and Nicole Habel, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine and electrophysiologist, took their “Stop Heart Failure” mission to the Vermont City Marathon, raising awareness for a stiff-muscle heart failure that affects some 3 million Americans.

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ACCOLADES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Charles Irvin, Ph.D., professor of medicine and molecular physiology & biophysics and former director of the Vermont Lung Center at the UVM Larner College of Medicine, has been named the 2026 recipient of the Edward Livingston Trudeau Medal from the American Thoracic Society, in recognition of his exemplary professionalism and enormous impact on respiratory medicine.

On May 12, 2026, the Larner College of Medicine celebrated Honors Night. The event recognized outstanding medical students in the graduating Class of 2026, as well as faculty, staff, and residents, with awards for humanism, leadership, scholarship, and service, including honor society, AHEC Scholars, and departmental awards across both Larner’s Vermont and Connecticut clinical campuses.

The Department of Pediatrics has announced the 2026 winners of the annual Jerold and Ingela Lucey Early Career Investigator Prize for Innovations in Infant or Child Health: Andries Feder ’27; Christopher P. Kruglik, M.D.’26, M.Sc.; Julia Litzky, M.D., Ph.D., neonatal-perinatal medicine fellow; and Christian Pulcini, M.D., M.P.H., M.Ed., assistant professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics. They will present at Pediatric Grand Rounds on May 27.

On Sunday, May 24, Burlington hosted the annual Vermont City Marathon, as hundreds of runners and spectators converged at the Lake Champlain waterfront. Larner College of Medicine faculty and medical students once again volunteered in the medical tent, where Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Katie Dolbec, M.D.’10, served as medical director.

Larner medical student Andrew Warfield ’27 has earned one of the most prestigious honors in interventional radiology: the Dr. Constantin Cope Medical Student Research Award. Warfield’s research “Predicting Response to Renal Artery Stenting for Atherosclerotic Stenosis: Regression Analysis of a 20-Year Single Center Cohort” has earned him this honor.

SAVE THE DATE

VCCBH Symposium | The Vermont Center for Cardiovascular & Brain Health is holding a symposium June 11–12, 9 a.m.–3 p.m., at the UVM Davis Center, featuring guest speakers from Denmark, San Francisco, Harvard, and Portugal. 

SfRBM 2026 North American Redox Symposium | Deadline to submit abstracts for this fall conference, with the theme “Redox-based processes in chronic disease: From target discovery to clinical application,” is June 15. The symposium will be held September 13–16, 2026, at Hotel Champlain in Burlington. Submit your abstract by June 15. Registration is now open. 

Juneteenth | All UVM offices closed on Friday, June 19, for this federal holiday commemorating the day in 1865 when the news of the Emancipation Proclamation ending slavery in the United States reached Texas, announcing the official end of the Civil War.

To view recent publications by members of the Larner College of Medicine community, visit the National Institutes of Health PubMed website.

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