<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/gilwee_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />Vermont is helping to change the face of primary care with a new model that makes a medical practice the home for all a patient's needs. Clinicians and researchers from the College of Medicine are playing integral roles in these efforts.
<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/leibowitz_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />George Leibowitz, assistant professor of social work, is convinced that producing research that reveals the differences between adolescent and adult sexual offenders will change the way juvenile offenders are treated by society, law enforcement and therapists.
<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/masozera_430x300.jpg" height="300" width="430" />To understand how the next disease like SARS or bird flu could arise, take a trip to the Great Ruaha River. It meanders for 300 miles through south-central Tanzania, flowing year-round from the vast Ihefu wetlands through the Ruaha National Park. Or it used to.<span id="caption">Professor Jon Erickson and his Rwandan graduate student, Michel Masozera, are studying disease transmission in Tanzania. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/uvmtoday/sets/72157622586798434/">See photos from the field.</a></span>
<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/naylor_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />When Jeff Toon met Magdalena Naylor, he was using a wheelchair and suffering from so much chronic pain he couldn't turn the pages in a book. Today, he is able to bike, sail, swim, and pursue a second undergraduate degree in engineering. Lee Rosenberg, a former nurse, now very rarely takes medication for a chronic pain condition. "When I think of these people," says Naylor, a professor of psychiatry, "I get goose bumps."
