Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Dr. Gregory Brown (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health; Medicine) and colleagues published an article in Academic Psychiatry proposing updated guidelines for professional training.
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Jennifer Pharr (Public Health), along with an interdisciplinary team of experts that include Aditi Singh, Deborah Kuhls, and Lorraine Evangelista, received a Faculty Opportunity Grant for their pilot project, "Persistent Racism in Sexual Minorities (PRISM): A Two-pronged Approach to Understand Intersecting Axes of…
Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with researchers from different countries, including Italy, Morocco, Lebanon, Iran, and Poland, published an editorial, "Bridging ethics and spirituality in healthcare policies for a holistic response to climate change, new pandemics and global health challenges: A call to action," in the Advances in Medicine,…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an interdisciplinary research article titled, “Explaining the barriers faced by veterinarians against preventing antimicrobial resistance: An innovative interdisciplinary qualitative study,” with researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, Hormozgan…
Students Kenny Do and Eric Kawana (Medicine) published a systematic review in the Journal of Clinical Medicine discussing the use of bone wax for total hip and knee arthroplasties. Blood loss is a serious complication that patients can experience when undergoing these orthopedic procedures. This systematic review found that the use of bone…
Mohammad Sohail Akhter (Social and Behavioral Health), Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Incidence of emerging Candida auris infection in Bangladesh: A rapid review of the literature” with Konok Akter from International Centre for Diarrheal…
Students Celica Glenn Cosme, Irwin Munoz, Guadalupe Vasquez-Perez, and Jennifer Hurtado (Medicine) were awarded a highly competitive, AΩA 2024 Medical Student Service Leadership Project Grant for their submission: “MedLead Horizons: Cultivating Leadership in Future Physicians through Educational Outreach.”
Claire Ong (Medicine), class of 2026 medical student, presented her research poster on the role of CXCR3+ monocytes on CAR T-cell function at the American College of Physicians’ (ACP) Internal Medicine Meeting on April 20. She was selected as one of the medical student research poster winners.
Eric Kawana, B.S.; Rodd Rahmani, M.D.; Scott Turnbull, D.O.; Adam Khattak, D.O.; Kenny Do, B.S.; and Aditi Singh, M.D. (all Medicine) published an article titled, "A Rare Presentation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in a Patient With Fever of Unknown Origin" in the journal Cureus.
This case presents a 23-year-old male with a rare…
Vidhani S. Goel, Ana L. Reyes, Bertille Assoumou, Dodds P. Simangan, Megumi Akiyama, Deborah A. Kuhls, Kavita Batra (all Medicine) with Farooq Abdulla from United Healthcare, Nevada, presented their study "Utilizing a hybrid approach to link maternal and neonatal records" at the Nevada Public Health Association Annual Conference. Batra et al.,…
Vidhani S. Goel, Ana L. Reyes, Bertille Assoumou, Dodds P. Simangan, Megumi Akiyama, Deborah A. Kuhls, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) along with Farooq Abdulla from United Healthcare, Nevada, presented their study "Mternal substance abuse and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission among Medicaid beneficiaries: a state-wide audit" at the…
Gillian Gottlieb, Lisa Menegatos (Honors), Brenna Renn (Psychology), with Corrin Sullivan, Dale Netski and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) presented a poster of their study, "The Mental Health Impact Among College Students in the Post-COVID-19 Phase" at the Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium held at UNLV.
Gottlieb is graduating this…