Now entering its 18th year, the Community Medical Series presented by the University of Vermont College of Medicine and University of Vermont Medical Center launched its Spring 2016 series on Tuesday, March 1, with a lecture by Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry Beth Robbins, Psy.D., titled "All Stressed Out: Symptoms, Physiology and Approaches for Relief." Roughly 135 people attended the talk, which took place in the College of Medicine's Carpenter Auditorium in the Given Building on the UVM campus.

This free public lecture series features the academic medical center's top faculty experts, who discuss the science behind important health issues. Presentations take place the first Tuesday of each month from 6 to 7:30 p.m., including a Q&A session, March 1 through June 7, 2016.

Additional Spring 2016 Community Medical School topics include:

April 5 – “Global Health: A View from Uganda” by Robert Kalyesubula, M.D., Founder, ACCESS-Uganda, and Rainer Arnhold Teaching Fellow, Makerere University, Uganda;

May 3 – “Mammography and Breast Cancer Screening: The New Guidelines” by Ted James, M.D., Professor of Surgery and Medical Director, New England American Cancer Society; and

June 7 – "Examining the Science of Medical Cannabis" by Wolfgang Dostmann, Ph.D., and Karen Lounsbury, Ph.D., Professors of Pharmacology 

For more information, visit the Community Medical School website.