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75 Students from Five Area High Schools Learn About Careers in Cancer

April 11, 2024 by Jeff Wakefield

Seventy-five students from five Burlington-area high schools attended the second Careers in Cancer event at the UVM Cancer Center on April 12, receiving career advice from UVM Cancer Center leadership, faculty, staff, and trainees and observing faculty and students working on cancer research in several of the university’s research labs.
Dixon Appointed E. L. Amidon, M.D.’32, Chair of Medicine

April 11, 2024 by Janet Essman Franz

Professor and Chair of Medicine Anne Dixon, M.A., B.M.B.Ch., was invested as the E. L. Amidon, M.D.’32, Chair of the Department of Medicine on March 29. A UVM faculty member since 2001, Dr. Dixon is chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine and director of the Vermont Lung Center. She served as interim chair of medicine from fall 2022 until her appointment as permanent chair in fall 2023.
Coleman Discusses Disparities in Health Care in NBC5 Interview

April 11, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson

(APRIL 11, 2024) Marissa Coleman, Psy.D., Larner clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and UVMMC vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion, was interviewed by NBC5 for a story on the importance of quality care to meet needs across diverse backgrounds.
Read full story at NBC5
Inflammation May Play a Key Role in the Development of Hypertension

April 10, 2024 by Angela Ferrante

In a recent study published in the American Heart Association (AHA) journal Hypertension, scientists from the Larner College of Medicine, including Timothy Plante, M.D., M.H.S., Russell Tracy, Ph.D., Debora Kamin Mukaz, Ph.D., M.S., Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc., and Neil Zakai, M.D., M.Sc., explored the intricate relationship between specific inflammatory biomarkers and hypertension—with some surprising results.
Freeman Talks TBI with WCAX

April 10, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson

(APRIL 10, 2024) Kalev Freeman, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of emergency medicine and pharmacology, discussed traumatic brain injury, or TBI, in a WCAX-TV interview.
Read full story at WCAX-TV

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