Temperatures are cooling, campuses are buzzing and everyone – whether they are in school or not – seems to feel that sense of excitement associated with going back to school. Learners of all ages can quench that yearning for learning at Community Medical School, the free public lecture series offered jointly by the University of Vermont College of Medicine and Fletcher Allen Health Care.

The fall series, which features the latest science on today’s most prominent health issues, kicked off on Tuesday, September 2, with a presentation, titled “Too Hip to Hop: Understanding Knee and Hip Replacement,” by David Halsey, M.D., associate professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation. More than 170 people attended the lecture.

Lectures -- delivered by the top faculty experts at the UVM College of Medicine and Fletcher Allen -- take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Given Building’s Carpenter Auditorium on the UVM College of Medicine campus the first Tuesday of each month through December 2, 2014.

Future Fall 2014 topics include:
Oct. 7: “No Sugar Added: How to Reduce Health Risks and Keep Life Sweet” by Rachel Johnson, R.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Bickford Green and Gold Professor of Nutrition and Food Sciences and Pediatrics;
Nov. 4: “Not Too High, Not Too Low: Keeping Blood Pressure in Check” by Alan Segal, M.D., Professor of Medicine; and
Dec. 2: “I Can’t Recall: Memory and the Impact of Neurological Disorders” by William Pendlebury, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Neurological Sciences Emeritus

For more information and to register, go here.