Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Dr. Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (Medicine) associate professor of internal medicine and Governor of the Nevada Chapter of the American College of Physicians, was awarded two 2025 John Tooker Evergreen Awards for enriching, educating, and engaging membership. The Nevada Chapter partnered with the Arizona Chapter to engineer debates between residency teams…
Kathryn Houk (Libraries; Medicine) is the winner of the Libraries' Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award. She was nominated for her exceptional work on the publication Toward Inclusive Academic Library Hiring Practices, which she co-edited. She also contributed a chapter, co-written with colleagues Christina Miskey and Jason Aubin, about…
Dr. Kevin Petersen (Medicine) presented at the 2025 Southwest Surgical Congress in Sonoma Valley, California, on behalf of colleagues: Dr. Deborah Kuhls and Dr. Allison McNickle. The presentation, titled "Are we waiting too long? Evidence of a delay in treatment of patients with blunt cerebrovascular injury and concomitant traumatic brain injury…
Raul Saucedo (Medicine) presented at the 2025 Southwest Surgical Congress in Sonoma Valley, California, on behalf of colleagues: Dr. Vivek Pamulapati, Dr. Alex Chen, Dr. Jared Griffard and Dr. Allison McNickle. The presentation, titled "Small Bleeds, Thin Blood: Do We Need to Aggressively Manage TBI Patients on Anticoagulants and Antiplatelets?,"…
George Alhwayek (Medicine) presented at the 2025 Southwest Surgical Congress in Sonoma Valley, California. The presentation titled, "Pre- and Post-Operative Hemoglobin Levels, Intra-operative Resuscitation, and Subsequent Complications in Geriatric Patients Undergoing Femur Fracture Fixation," focused on optimizing the intra-operative…
ScholarGPS has named Dr. Jeffrey L. Cummings (Brain Health) the “World’s #1 Ranked Scholar” in the fields of dementia and drug development.
Cummings, a highly respected research professor at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, who previously served as founding director of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Exploring barriers to formal mental health help-seeking among Iranian adolescent girls: A qualitative study using the PRECEDE model,” in the International Journal of Adolescence and Youth (5-year Impact factor 3.8) with coauthors from Shiraz University of…
Alina Swafford (UNLV Sports Innovation Institute), Dr. Nate Hollister (Medicine), undergraduate student Scott McDonald, and John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences; UNLV Sports Innovation Institute) published a perspective paper representing a call to action to research circus movements. The focus of the paper is on the use of wearable…
Vaida Kazlauskaite, Brandon Eddy, and Sara Jordan (all Couple and Family Therapy) presented at the International Family Therapy Association Annual Conference in Aberdeen, Scotland. The presentation entitled "Provider Training to Help Parents with Cancer Communicate with their Children" focused on the quantitative inquiry regarding education and…
Henry Krasner, Claire Victoria Ong, Paige Hewitt, and Thomas A. Vida (Medicine) published a critical review in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences that sheds new light on what’s driving this mental health crisis: chronic stress may not just change how we feel—it may physically change how our brains work.
Mood disorders — like…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Public Health), alongside the GBD 2021 Asthma and Allergic Diseases Collaborators, published a study in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine on the global burden of asthma and atopic dermatitis (1990–2021) with projections to 2050. While total cases are expected to rise, age-standardized prevalence rates should…
Dr. Jeffrey Cummings (Brain Health) will be recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
A tradition dating back to 1874, election as a AAAS Fellow is a lifetime honor, and all Fellows are expected to…