Glenn Barnes (Sports Medicine Center) has been certified by the Alliance for Physician Certification & Advancement in Musculoskeletal Sonography (RMSK). Certification requires submission of previously performed ultrasounds that are reviewed by experts, as well as passing a rigorous exam. Barnes is the only fellowship trained…

Kenneth Izuora and Amber Champion (both Internal Medicine) participated in a round table discussion with Senator Catherine Cortez Masto at the Silver Sky Assisted Living Facility in Las Vegas. The two physicians joined other medical professionals to provide input on how the Inflation Reduction Act might impact Medicare patients using insulin…

Students from the School of Integrative Health Sciences were recently published in the journal PLOS ONE. Victor Beck (Integrated Health Sciences), Taylor Diaz (Kinesiology), and Vernice Ollano (Kinesiology) published a paper titled "Effects of nutritional and hydration strategies during ultramarathon events between finishers and non-finishers: A…

Andrea Wirth (Libraries) gave two presentations at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress. She presented the lighting talk, "Repository Content and the SDGs: Making the Connection", and co-chaired the Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section Program, "The Use…

The National Science Foundation EPSCoR Program awarded Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research), Sarah Harris (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Eduardo Robleto (Life Sciences), and Kurt Regner (Life Sciences) a Research Infrastructure Improvement grant in the amount of $999,955 for the project titled "Enhancing the Transition of COVID-19…

Ariyon Schreiber, Kim Inciong, Wilbur Ji, Justin Bauzon, Omar Al-Taweel, Keaton Nasser, Binna Chokshi, Jimmy Diep, Chowdhury Ahsan (all Internal Medicine), published "A Single-center Retrospective Study on the Incidence and Clinical Significance of the Electrocardiographic "Triangular QRS-ST-T Waveform" Pattern in Heart and Lung" in the Journal of…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) coauthored an article titled “COVID-19 Infection among Family and Friends: The Psychological Impact on Non-Infected Persons” in the journal Brain Sciences. The article was written in collaboration with authors from New Mexico State University, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, University of…

Kelly Tseng (Life Sciences) was awarded a four-year $747,500 National Institutes of Health grant titled, "Regulation of Eye Regrowth in Xenopus laevis." The goal of this grant is to understand the mechanisms of eye regeneration. She was also awarded a Research Infrastructure grant from the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium to study the role of…

Roberto Lovato (English) was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times in a column titled, "Latinophobia in mainstream news fuels the radical right," which discusses the dangerous effects of Latinx erasure in and by the major media. "Roberto Lovato, a journalist and visiting professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told me the…