• School of Medicine staff performing curbside testing for SARS-CoV-2 in the parking lot of the 1707 Charleston location in 2020..
  • Medical student doing research in the lab of Edwin Oh, Ph.D.
  • Dr. Fraser teaching medical students at the Clinical Simulation Center of Las Vegas.
  • A student looking at a research poster at the Medical Research Society 2nd Annual Student Research Symposium in 2021.

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Edwin Oh uses genetics to improve health while Katherine Hertlein explores healthy relationships and the connection between sexuality and technology.

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Third-year medical student Sherine Khanbijian refused to let setbacks derail her dream of becoming a physician.

A portrait of Dr. John Fildes

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine's John Fildes looks back at decades of medical accomplishments.

Dr. Iardino sits in front of a computer screne.

"Walking in his patients' shoes" takes on new meaning for Dr. Alfredo Iardino.

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Professor Edwin Oh finds valuable COVID information lurking in our sewers.

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Dr. Beverly Neyland credits her parents with setting her on the path to success.

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41 percent of the Class of 2022 staying in Nevada for the next stage of their medical training.

Vladislav Zhitny sits at a computer.

Vladislav Zhitny, an emigrant from the Ukraine, has had 18 papers appear in a variety of publications.

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Dr. Michael Scheidler performed life-saving surgery on tiny Annalisa Gubler when she was an infant with a dim prognosis.

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