Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Administrative Assistants gathered donations from all of their departments for the Shannon West Homeless Youth Shelter Center (SWHYC) this holiday season. The SWHYC supports youth who are homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless with housing, basic needs/food, education, employment assistance, and life…

Deborah A. Kuhls, Bertille Mavegam, Kavita Batra, Noehealani Antolin, Ana Reyes (all Medicine), along with along with Courtney Coughenour, Max Gakh, William Porter, Darin Mains (all Public Health), and William Sousa (Urban Affairs) presented their project entitled "Statistical Transparency of Policing (STOP) Nevada Data Collection…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) was honored with the World Changer Award (Alumnus) by the School of Public Health Leadership at their 20th Anniversary celebration on Nov. 8, 2024. This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made a significant impact as leaders and advocates in public health. The UNLV School of Public Health, formerly known…

Kendall Chaffin, Anna Horvath, Sophie Ahmad, Rooman Ahad, Kavita Batra (all Medicine) published a study "Primary headache content on online community platforms: a scoping review protocol" in BMJ Open. This scoping review seeks to explore the extent of available information, uncover existing gaps in knowledge, and to serve as a resource for…

Yonsu Kim (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Ji Won Yoo (Internal Medicine), Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Tae-Ha Chung (Internal Medicine) published a paper, "Estimating the cost of asthma: moderating effect of race/ethnicity on the relationship between asthma severity and the direct cost." They found an incremental cost…

Dean Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) has been elected to the Association of American Medical College's (AAMC) Council of Deans Administrative Board.  He will serve on the 12-member leadership group for the council of deans, comprised of the deans of all US allopathic medical schools. Prior to last week's AAMC meeting in Atlanta, Kahn was…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Multi-theory model (MTM) and change in childbearing behavior:  A perspective,” with coauthors from Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Iran in the Journal of Research Development in Nursing and Midwifery. The article presents a view…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), Ravi Batra, Ying Guo (both Public Health), Mina Atin (Nursing), and Bryar Shareef (Computer Science) co-authored a paper titled "Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence: Digital Monoculturalism in a Robotic World," published in the Advances in Medicine, Psychology, and Public Health journal. Dr. Kavita Batra, an…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and a team of global scholars, including Srikanta Banerjee (Walden University), Jagdish Khubchandani, Elizabeth England-Kennedy, and Karen Kopera-Frye (all from New Mexico State University), along with Rhonda McIntyre (Ross University School of Medicine), have published a study titled "Cognitive Functioning Influences…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Public Health) published a study "Global, regional, and national stillbirths at 20 weeks' gestation or longer in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021" in Lancet. This study found that in 2021, the global stillbirth rate was 23·0 (95% uncertainty…

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Marketing and Communications Department is proud to announce they have won a Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) Health+Wellness Design Award™ for the second year in a row.  GDUSA, greatly respected in the world of graphic design, has been a source of news and information for designers and the broader…

Zahra Dossaji, Mark Hsu,  Kyaw Min Tun, Adam  Khattak, Jonathan Hansen, Kavita Batra, and Vignan Manne (all Medicine) published an abstract "Investigating Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Hypoxic Hepatitis: A Single Institutional Study" in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.