Kimberly Tomas and Soumya Upadhyay (both Healthcare Administration) presented a paper titled "Does Cultural Competency Influence Patient Safety Culture?" at the 2018 Nevada Public Health Association Conference held last month in Las Vegas. Tomas is pursuing a master of public health degree.

Philip Danquah (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented a poster, "Perceptions, Barriers, Attitudes, and Enablers of HIV Prevention Market Strategies among Young College Women: A Systematic Gap Analysis Using Diffusion of Innovation Theory," at the 2018 Nevada Public Health Annual Conference in Las Vegas last month. Danquah is pursuing a…

Jay Shen, Sungyoun Chun (both Community Health Sciences); Pearl Kim (Healthcare Administration), Seong-min Park (Criminal Justice), Haneul Choi (Honors), and Ji Won Yoo (Medicine) recently published an article, “Relationship Between Acute Hepatitis C and the Opioid Epidemic” in the American Journal of Medicine. This paper was a collaboration…

Soumya Upadhyay (Healthcare Administration) presented a professional development workshop (PDW) session on the topic "Everything You Wanted to Know about Reviewing but Were Afraid to Ask" at the 78th Academy of Management annual conference in Chicago. This PDW discussed best practices in reviewing journal articles and recommendations for reviewers…

Soumya Upadhyay (Healthcare Administration and Policy) presented three papers at the recent 2018 Annual Academy Health meeting. Her poster presentations covered the following broad topics: Improving Safety, Quality, and Value in Healthcare Measuring Safety, Quality, and Value in Healthcare  Diversity and Cultural Competence

Soumya Upadhyay (Healthcare Administration) recently presented two papers, "Structural Characteristics and Patient Safety Culture: Do Teamwork and Handoffs Have a Mediating Role?' and "Hospital-Physician Financial Integration and Patient Safety Outcomes, " at the Healthcare Management Division at the 78th Academy of Management meeting in…

Tanviben Y. Patel, Mark Buttner, and Chad Cross (all Environmental and Occupational Health), and Dennis Bazylinski (Life Sciences), along with David Rivas, '18 Master of Public Health, and physician Joram Seggev, wrote an article, "Variation in Airborne Pollen Concentrations Among Five Monitoring Locations in a Desert Urban Environment," which was…

Jay Shen (Community Health Sciences), Pearl Kim (Healthcare Administration), and Ji Won Yoo (Medicine) recently published a paper, "Life-Sustaining Procedures, Palliative Care Consultation, and Do-Not Resuscitate Status in Dying Patients With COPD in US Hospitals: 2010-2014", in the Journal of Palliative Care. This study resulted from…

Lung-Chang Chien (Environmental and Occupational Health) presented a poster, "Influence of Highly Correlated Cross-Basis Functions in the Distributed Lag Nonlinear Model," in the Joint Statistical Meeting 2018 earlier this month in Vancouver, Canada.

Qing Wu (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine and Environmental and Occupational Health ) and Yingke Xu (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) are the authors of "Decreasing Trend of Bone Mineral Density in US Multiethnic Population: Analysis of Continuous NHANES 2005 - 2014," which has been accepted for publication in…

Lung-Chang Chien (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored a research paper, "Bibliometric Analysis of Gaps in Research on Asbestos-related Diseases: Declining Emphasis on Public Health over 26 Years" in BMJ-OPEN. This paper examined the gaps between asbestos-related disease (ARD) research and suggestions of the World Health…

The Department of Health Care Administration's master of health care administration program (Community Health Sciences) recently received accreditation from the Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME), the only accrediting body for graduate health care administration programs in both the United States and Canada…