The Medical Alumni Association of the University of Vermont College of Medicine recently announced its 2015 awards recipients. Medical student Raj Thakrar ’16 has been named the 2015 recipient of the Robert Larner, M.D.’42 Student Award. All of the awards will be presented in June during Medical Reunion 2015.

The Larner Student Award recognizes outstanding leadership and loyalty to the College, and is bestowed upon a student who embodies Larner’s dedication to not only supporting his alma mater, but inspiring others to do so as well. Read more about Thakrar here.

Alumni who will be receiving awards at Reunion include:

A. Bradley Soule Award:
Established in 1983, this honors an alumnus/a whose loyalty and dedication to the College of Medicine most emulate those qualities found in its first recipient, A. Bradley Soule, M.D. ’28

• Raymond J. Anton M.D.’70, Anesthesiologist, Glastonbury Surgery Center, Glastonbury, Conn.;
  Past President of the UVM Medical Alumni Association

Distinguished Academic Achievement Award:
Established in 1985, this award recognizes outstanding scientific or academic achievement.

• Palmer Q. Bessey, M.D.’75, Aronson Family Foundation Professor of Burn Surgery; Associate Director, William Randolph Hearst Burn Center Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, N.Y.
• George A. Little, M.D.’65, Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center & Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
• Richard Smith, M.D.’90, Professor of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University (AECOM), New York, N.Y.
• Norman Snow, M.D.’70, (Retired) Academic Cardiothoracic Surgeon & currently Professor of Anatomy Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
• Daniel Sullivan, M.D.’70, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.

Service to Medicine and Community Award
Established in 1984, this award is presented to graduates who have maintained a high standard of medical service and who have achieved an outstanding record of community service or assumed other significant responsibilities in addition to their medical practice.

• Allyson Bolduc, M.D.’95, (Retired) Family Medicine, University of Vermont Medical Center, South Burlington Family Practice, Vt.
• Rochelle Dicker, M.D.’95, Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of General Surgery & Co-Director of San Francisco Injury Center, Co-Director, Center of Global Surgical Studies, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Director of the Wraparound Project – a violence prevention intervention program – at UCSF in Calif.
• John Durham, M.D.’85, Orthopedic Surgeon, Northern Arizona Orthopedics, Flagstaff, Ariz.; Leader, Northern Arizona Volunteer Medical Corps (NAVMC), a medical volunteer group with a primary focus on helping Haitians since the 2010 Earthquake.
• Jack Long, M.D.’75, Pediatric Advisor, Partners in Health/Zanmi Lasante, Cange, Haiti;  (Retired) Pediatrician, Pediatric Medicine, South Burlington, Vt.; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UVM College of Medicine
• Delight Wing, M.D.’75, Pediatric Advisor, Partners in Health/Zanmi Lasante, Cange, Haiti; (Retired) Pediatrician, Pediatric Medicine, South Burlington, Vt.; Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UVM College of Medicine

Early Achievement Award
Established in 2000, this award recognizes early-career physicians for outstanding academic achievements or contributions through community or medical service.

• Felicia Smith, M.D.’00, Psychiatrist and Program Director, Adult Psychiatry Residency Program, Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital, Boston, Mass.