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Top Medicine Researchers at University of Vermont for 2026
Recent medicine research at the University of Vermont spans cardiovascular risk, hematology, public health, and the lived realities of care across clinical and community settings. Looking across the last year, the institution’s output shows a mix of cohort studies, trials, and translational work that reflects how researchers are connecting patient outcomes with population-level questions.
Below, you’ll find a snapshot of the researchers contributing most actively in medicine, with attention to the themes shaping their recent publications and the subfields that appear again and again across the portfolio.
Featured Researchers
Mary Cushman
Mary Cushman’s recent University of Vermont work centers on internal medicine, hematology, and cardiovascular medicine, with studies of venous thromboembolism, atrial fibrillation risk prediction, and COVID-19-related cognitive change.
Activity over the last year: 47 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential and incidence of venous thromboembolism in older adults (Apr 2025)
- Improving stroke risk prediction in atrial fibrillation with circulating biomarkers: the CHA2DS2-VASc–Biomarkers model (Aug 2025)
- COVID-19 and Cognitive Change in a Community-Based Cohort (Jun 2025)
Timothy B. Plante
Timothy B. Plante is publishing across cardiology, public health, and epidemiology, with recent papers on Life’s Essential 8, trial participation barriers, and sodium reduction in cardiovascular risk.
Activity over the last year: 28 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Association Between Life's Essential 8 and Cardiovascular, Cancer, and Other Cause Mortality (May 2025)
- Motivation to Clinical Trial Participation: Health Information Distrust and Healthcare Access as Explanatory Variables and Gender as Moderator (Jan 2025)
- Dietary sodium reduction lowers 10-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk score: Results from the DASH-sodium trial (Mar 2025)
Russell P. Tracy
Russell P. Tracy’s recent publications span epidemiology, genetics, and emergency medicine, including work on COVID-19 and cognitive change, calcific aortic valve disease, and a cardiovascular cohort study in young adults.
Activity over the last year: 29 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- COVID-19 and Cognitive Change in a Community-Based Cohort (Jun 2025)
- Plasma Proteomic Assessment of Calcific Aortic Valve Disease in Older Adults (Feb 2025)
- Future of Families: Cardiovascular Health Among Young Adults Cohort Study: Rationale, Key Questions, Study Design, and Participant Characteristics (Aug 2025)
Neil A. Zakai
Neil A. Zakai’s University of Vermont research focuses on internal medicine, hematology, and cardiovascular medicine, with studies on thrombosis after hospitalization, bleeding risk, and secondary acute myeloid leukemia.
Activity over the last year: 18 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Risk factors for venous thrombosis after discharge from medical hospitalizations: the Medical Inpatient Thrombosis and Hemostasis study (Apr 2025)
- Characteristics and Survival of Secondary Acute Myeloid Leukemia From Myelodysplastic Syndromes in Older Adults: A Population Analysis (Jan 2025)
- Anticoagulation and other risk factors for clinically relevant bleeding after medical hospitalization: the Medical Inpatient Thrombosis and Hemostasis Study (Mar 2025)
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan is working across cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and psychiatry, with recent publications on eating behavior, genetic risk for obesity, glymphatic activity, and brain connectivity.
Activity over the last year: 22 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Relationships of eating behaviors with psychopathology, brain maturation and genetic risk for obesity in an adolescent cohort study (Jan 2025)
- Genome-wide association study unravels mechanisms of brain glymphatic activity (Jan 2025)
- Mapping the coupling between tract reachability and cortical geometry of the human brain (Aug 2025)
Stephen T. Higgins
Stephen T. Higgins’ recent output combines physiology, epidemiology, and neuroscience, with studies on smoking cessation during pregnancy, e-cigarette use in trials, and adolescent cigarette smoking patterns.
Activity over the last year: 13 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Financial Rewards for Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy and Birth Weight (Mar 2025)
- E-cigarette use frequency mediates effects in three randomized controlled trials of reduced nicotine cigarettes with tobacco vs preferred flavor e-cigarettes in high-risk populations in the U.S. (Jul 2025)
- Examining US adolescent cigarette smoking prevalence by rurality and gender, 2002–2019 (Jul 2025)
Maija Reblin
Maija Reblin’s work at the University of Vermont sits at the intersection of public health, oncology, and sociology, with recent attention to telehealth in palliative care, support networks in cancer survivorship, and clinician communication in rural care.
Activity over the last year: 15 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Telehealth for the study of palliative care communication: opportunities, methodological challenges, and recommendations (Mar 2025)
- Assessing social support networks in cancer survivors and their care partners: concordance between expected and received support (Aug 2025)
- “It's hard to talk to a computer, I get it”: An exploratory analysis of clinician connection-building communication practices in rural telepalliative care encounters (Jan 2025)
Anthony Charles
Anthony Charles is publishing across emergency medicine, epidemiology, and public health, with recent work on diverticulitis, enhanced recovery in pediatric colorectal surgery, and acute kidney injury in intensive care.
Activity over the last year: 11 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
What University of Vermont's Medicine Community Is Working On
The most common subfields across this medicine portfolio are epidemiology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, public health, internal medicine, and hematology. Taken together, they suggest an active research community focused on understanding risk, improving prevention, and translating clinical findings into broader patient and population health impact. The mix of cardiovascular studies, thrombosis and bleeding research, and public health-oriented work also points to sustained attention to disease burden, care access, and outcomes across different settings.- Epidemiology - seen across 4 of the featured researchers
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
- Internal Medicine - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
- Hematology - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
The University of Vermont’s recent medicine research shows a strong balance of clinical inquiry and public health perspective, with clear attention to cardiovascular disease, blood disorders, mental health, and care delivery. If you want to keep exploring publication trends or organize your own research workflow, Resub can help with citation discovery, manuscript formatting, and submission preparation.
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