Patrick Sargent

Silvia Galván Peña, PhD, and Jin Zhang, PhD, are two of five recipients of the 2026 @CHoodFoundation Child Health Research Awards: umassmed.edu/news/articles/… @UMassChanMicro @UMassChan @Silvia_galvan_p @JoannaJinZ @ProgMolMed

Congrats to all of the 172 @UMassChan students who matched, including Sonia Radu, MPH, who matched in psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center. Born in Romania, Radu was drawn to medicine because of the physician-patient relationship. #UMassChanMatch #Match2026 @TuftsMedicalCtr @UMass

Friends since they were students at @washu, fourth-year medical students Rhea Kukkal and Jenna Patel are creating a "Bridging the Gap" handbook—a guide to help immigrants navigate the health care system in Worcester: direc.to/o5_B #HealthCare #Worcester @UMassChanGiving

Discover how second-year T.H. Chan School of Medicine student Ahnyia Sanders is supporting women of color in Worcester as they navigate pregnancy and the postpartum period: direc.to/o6oR #MaternalHealth #Worcester #community @umassmemorial @UMassChanGiving @UMass

UMass Chan students are leading “Cultivating Connections,” a monthly, hands-on culinary workshop at the Barre/Hardwick senior center, to provide shared meals and teach hands-on cooking skills tailored to common senior dietary needs: umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… @UMassChan

Terence R. Flotte, MD, is being recognized as a champion and supporter of women in medicine by @AMWADoctors. Dr. Flotte will receive the Larry Zaroff Man of Good Conscience Award at the AMWA’s 111th annual meeting in San Francisco in March: umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… @UMassChan

UMass Chan's community engagement efforts and intiatives are being recognized at the national level with a prestigious classification from @CarnegieFdn: umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… @UMassChan @UMassChanGiving @worcesterpublic

A recent study by the Laboratory for Neuro-Analysis and Imaging (LANAI) at @UMassChan highlights how subcortical brain structures degenerate in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia patients: umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… @UMassAmherst @journal_ad

It's been quite a year at @UMassChan! Check out this great video and story below highlighting the university's many accomplishments in 2025: umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… @UMassChanGiving @ProgMolMed @UMassChanSOM

A pair of @UMassChan researchers -- Lina Marcela Carmona, PhD, and Nils Grotehans, PhD -- received competitive early career awards from the @AFARorg and the Glenn Foundation: umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… @ProgMolMed @NeurobioUMass

Fourth-year @UMassChan student Maxwell Stukalin was the recipient of the Worcester Medical Library Medical Student Achievement Award last month at the @WorcDMS annual meeting and awards ceremony: umassmed.edu/news/news-arch…

Check it out! Edible Boston features the Wellness Farm at @UMassChan here: edibleboston.com/blog/2025/11/1… @UMassChanGiving

UMass Chan students Hoang Vo and Diego Marroquin volunteer at Worcester Earn-A-Bike to fulfill a component of their med school curriculum geared toward making an impact on the local community, the health care system and the global population: umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… @UMassChan

A 4-year, $2M award from the @CDCgov will support a large-scale trial at @UMassChan to assess the effectiveness of a digital lifestyle change intervention for patients using GLP-1 therapies: umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… @faro_jamie

Ekaterina Pivovarova, PhD, is leading a 5-year, $3.5M study aimed at improving collaboration between drug courts and community treatment providers in Mass. and Florida to support individuals receiving treatment and staying out of jail. umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… @UMassChan @UCF

BREAKING: A new search is taking place beginning this morning in New Hampshire in connection with the decades-old unsolved murder of 27-year-old Catherine Millican, authorities say. on.nbcboston.com/vT8qVK8

Since the launch of the UMass Chan Cares campaign in 2021, @UMassChan faculty, students and employees have contributed nearly $1 million to a wide range of causes and organizations they care about. The 2025 campaign launches today! umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… @UMassChanGiving

Martha Zimmermann, PhD, is the recipient of a highly competitive award from the @NIMHgov to test a text message-based intervention she developed called Reaching Calm in a small pilot trial at four obstetric practices: umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… @UMassChan @UMassPsychiatry

After receving a highly competitive grant from @NIAAAnews, Kathryn Sabella, PhD, is hoping to shed light on the social causes of increased alcohol use among women, in hopes of reducing stigma and advocating for societal changes: umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… @UMassChan @UMass_SPARC

Fernando Martinez, MD, is the principal investigator on a DOD-funded project repurposing metformin, commonly used to control sugar levels in people with Type 2 diabetes, to treat patients with IPF, a chronic disease impacting the lungs. umassmed.edu/news/news-arch… @UMassChan