Put on your best pride colors and join members of the UVM Larner College of Medicine, College of Nursing & Health Sciences, UVM Children's Hospital and UVM Health Network community to march in the 2022 Pride Parade, which will be immediately followed by the Pride Festival. Read UVMHN, LCOM, CNHS Participant Details sheet.

View details about Pride Week activities and the September 18 parade and festival.

Members of the Larner and UVM Medical Center community partnered with organizers at Inner Space to volunteer at the Community Wellbeing Festival held July 9 in Winooski's Rotary Park. The event offered a space for community healing, art, music, food, and an opportunity for folks to connect with healthcare professionals and medical students from the greater Vermont area. Event co-organizers included Simran Kalsi '24, Kae Ravichandran '25, Karena Nguyen '25, Anthony Quach '25, Elise Prehoda '24, and Eric Zhang '24, along with faculty members and UVM Medical Center staff Kristin Fontaine, M.P.H., senior pediatric outreach coordinator, and Anisha Rimal, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics. Inner Space is also supported by Marissa Coleman, Ph.D., clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and UVMMC vice president of diversity, equity & inclusion, and Anthony Williams, M.D., assistant professor of family medicine. "Inner Space is a new healthcare organization founded with the help of established local community leaders, including Coco Shah of Marigold House, to improve health equity and access for historically oppressed or marginalized populations in our local community. The concept of events like this is to connect community members with both allopathic/osteopathic and ancestral healing providers in Vermont while providing a safe healing environment for all. The goal is to eventually develop a permanent physical space that the community can use for gathering and/or receiving holistic care," said Kalsi. Inner Space, supported by the Community Health Centers of Burlington, Vermont Health Equity Initiative, United Way of Northwest Vermont, and UVMMC, is partnering with Outright Vermont to hold another Community Wellbeing Festival on September 24, in Landry Park in Winooski. Additional Larner volunteers at the July 9 and upcoming September event include medical students Tonya Conley '24, Mialovena Exume '24, Shubhankar Joshi '24, Sam Afshari '24, Finlay Pilcher '24, Warrick Sahene '24, Gabriela Bosmenier Cruz '24, Linda Cui '24, Tim Greenfield '24, Paul McCleary '24, Amanda Galenkamp '24, Althea Tapales '24, Elizabeth O'Neill '25, Caitlin Early '25, Nic Hutt '25, Aathmika Krishnan '25, Ellen Mats '25, Camila Salcedo Gomez '26, and Matthew Kwasnik, lab research technician in neurological sciences. Find more info about the September 24 event. 

Pictured at left: Medical student volunteers gather at the July 9 Community Wellbeing Festival.

David Warshaw, Ph.D., professor and chair of molecular physiology and biophysics, recently received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research. The award, a supplement to Dr. Warshaw's ongoing National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute R01 grant to study cardiac myosin binding protein-C, is funding UVM undergraduate student Angela Ploysangngam, who has been working with Andrew Mead, Ph.D., faculty scientist in molecular physiology and biophysics. This NIH program is designed to attract and encourage individuals who are underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, biometric, clinical, social sciences, and nursing research, by providing a continuum of research opportunities with an overall goal to increase diversity in the research workforce. Ploysangngam will continue to work with Dr. Mead throughout her senior year to study the genetic manipulation of myosin binding protein-C in a zebrafish model.  She recently completed hiking the Vermont Long Trail (272 miles)!

Pictured at left: Dr. Mead (left) in the lab with Angela Ploysangngam.