Students Celica Glenn Cosme, Irwin Munoz, Guadalupe Vasquez-Perez, and Jennifer Hurtado (Medicine) were awarded a highly competitive, AΩA 2024 Medical Student Service Leadership Project Grant for their submission: “MedLead Horizons: Cultivating Leadership in Future Physicians through Educational Outreach.”

Claire Ong (Medicine), class of 2026 medical student, presented her research poster on the role of CXCR3+ monocytes on CAR T-cell function at the American College of Physicians’ (ACP) Internal Medicine Meeting on April 20. She was selected as one of the medical student research poster winners.

Eric Kawana, B.S.; Rodd Rahmani, M.D.; Scott Turnbull, D.O.; Adam Khattak, D.O.; Kenny Do, B.S.; and Aditi Singh, M.D. (all Medicine) published an article titled, "A Rare Presentation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in a Patient With Fever of Unknown Origin" in the journal Cureus.  This case presents a 23-year-old male with a rare…

Vidhani S. Goel, Ana L. Reyes, Bertille Assoumou, Dodds P. Simangan, Megumi Akiyama, Deborah A. Kuhls, Kavita Batra (all Medicine) with Farooq Abdulla from United Healthcare, Nevada, presented their study "Utilizing a hybrid approach to link maternal and neonatal records" at the Nevada Public Health Association Annual Conference. Batra et al.,…

Vidhani S. Goel, Ana L. Reyes, Bertille Assoumou, Dodds P. Simangan, Megumi Akiyama, Deborah A. Kuhls, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) along with Farooq Abdulla from United Healthcare, Nevada, presented their study "Mternal substance abuse and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission among Medicaid beneficiaries: a state-wide audit" at the…

Gillian Gottlieb, Lisa Menegatos (Honors), Brenna Renn (Psychology), with Corrin Sullivan, Dale Netski and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) presented a poster of their study, "The Mental Health Impact Among College Students in the Post-COVID-19 Phase" at the Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium held at UNLV.  Gottlieb is graduating this…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Relationships among Sleep Time, Physical Activity Time, Screen Time, and Nutrition Literacy of Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study in Chongqing, China,” with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University in the journal Nutrients (Impact factor 5.7). The…

Ana Reyes, Noehealani Antolin, Nicole Bacani, Bertille Mavegam Tango, Kavita Batra, and Deborah Kuhls (all Medicine) presented a lightning talk on their abstract titled, "A descriptive analysis of Nevada non-adjudicated speeding citations (2018-2021), distressed communities, and transportation insecurity" at the Nevada Public Health Association…

Bertille Assoumou, Vidhani Goel, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) gave an oral presentation of their abstract entitled "Maternal Marijuana Use and Poor Birth Outcomes in the United States: A Comprehensive Review" at the Nevada Public Health Association Virtual conference on April 17, 2024.

Whitney Elks, Abigail Cheng, Kencie Ely, Kavita Batra, Charles St. Hill, and Mark Guadagnoli (all Medicine) presented their research "Utilizing the 'Good, Better, How' Method of Feedback in Surgery: A Mixed-Methods Study" at the Southwestern Surgical Congress 75th Annual Scientific Meeting held on April 23, 2024. 

Michael Dicaro, Brianna Yee, KaChon Lei, Kavita Batra and Buddhadeb Dawn (All Medicine) published an abstract for their study "Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Systematic Review," in the Journal of American College of Cardiology. Dicaro and Yee are the medical residents and Lei is a Cardiology Fellow…

Manoj Sharma's (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) article, “Application of the multi-theory model to explain veterinarians' intentions to use telehealth/telemedicine” was recognized as a top-cited article from the Journal of the British Veterinary Association, Veterinary Record, for the period January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2023.…