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  • Leopold Study on Phantom Odors Gains National Coverage
    August 16, 2018 by Madi Wood
    A study co-authored by Donald Leopold, M.D., UVM clinical professor of surgery, is co-focuses on phantom odors in aging Americans. According to the study, 1 in 15 Americans over the age of 40 experience smelling unpleasant scents with no apparent source.
  • Ahern Receives St. Baldrick's Foundation Grant to Study Phthalates & Cancer
    August 7, 2018 by Sarah Keblin
    UVM Assistant Professor of Surgery Thomas Ahern, Ph.D., is the recipient of one of 76 St. Baldrick's Foundation grants totaling more than $19.1 million to support studying innovative treatment options in the pediatric cancer space.
  • Putting the Active in Learning – Med Students Bring First-hand Insight to Curriculum
    August 7, 2018 by Michelle Bookless
    As the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont works toward a curriculum that is 100 percent lecture-free by 2019, faculty aren’t the only ones helping move the transition forward; medical students are playing a critical role in creating active learning curriculum as well.
  • Center on Aging Hosts Beers Fund in Geriatrics Lecture on “Caring for the Caregiver”
    July 31, 2018 by Jennifer Nachbur
    The University of Vermont Center on Aging and UVM Geriatric Medicine program will host a presentation, titled “Caring for Caregivers and Transitions from Hospital to Home,” by international experts Horst Vollmar, M.D., M.P.H., and Mary Austrom, Ph.D., on August 3, 2018.
  • Parsons Leads American Thoracic Society, Named ATS Fellow with 3 UVM Colleagues
    July 26, 2018 by Jennifer Nachbur
    At the American Thoracic Society 2018 International Congress, held in May 2018, UVM E.L. Amidon Chair of Medicine Polly Parsons, M.D., was installed as president, and she and Larner College of Medicine colleagues Jason Bates, Ph.D., Sc.D., Anne Dixon, M.A., B.M., B.Ch., and Renee Stapleton, M.D., Ph.D., were inducted as the inaugural class of ATS Fellows.

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