UVM Larner College of Medicine Blog

Harnessing Vermont’s Rural Strengths

This opinion piece ran in VTDigger on November 20, 2025 by Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc., University Distinguished Professor and vice chair of medicine and co-director of the Vermont Center for Cardiovascular and Brain Health at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine, and director of the thrombosis and hemostasis program at the UVM Medical Center. Opinion pieces give voice to the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine community members and do not represent the college’s views.

Harnessing Vermont’s Rural Strengths Read More »

Curiosity, Collaboration, and Circadian Rhythms: My Path in Neuroscience

Neuroscience, Research

Abby Myers is a Ph.D. student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program, a multidisciplinary, Ph.D.-granting program that has more than 50 faculty mentors across nine departments in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and the Larner College of Medicine.

In the following blog post, she reflects on past childhood dreams to her current cutting-edge research on the pineal gland on the path to becoming a neuroscientist.

Curiosity, Collaboration, and Circadian Rhythms: My Path in Neuroscience Read More »

Balancing Care, Research & Education: Why Vermont Needs Academic Medicine

Medical Education, Research

This opinion piece ran in VTDigger on January 20, 2025 by David Schneider, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine, cardiologist, and director of cardiovascular services at the UVM Medical Center. Opinion pieces give voice to the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine community members and do not represent the college’s views.

Balancing Care, Research & Education: Why Vermont Needs Academic Medicine Read More »