Seven Days Profile of Carlson Features Anatomical Gift Program

June 28, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson

(JUNE 28, 2023) A Seven Days profile of Lisa Carlson, a Vermont author, teacher, and funeral consumer advocate who passed away on June 4, 2023, mentions the Anatomical Gift Program at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine.

A stone memorial bench engraved with: “The UVM College of Medicine Medical Students dedicate this bench to those people who so generously donated their bodies to science. They were some of our best teachers.”

(JUNE 28, 2023) A Seven Days profile of Lisa Carlson, a Vermont author, teacher, and funeral consumer advocate who passed away on June 4, 2023, mentions the Anatomical Gift Program at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine. Carlson’s body will be donated to the program for anatomical study. “I’m not going to need it, but medical students need someone to learn on,” Carlson reportedly told friends.

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