Kavita Batra and Deborah A. Kuhls (both Medicine) received a grant of $650,000 from the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Health Care Financing and Policing to conduct a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)-related study.  The aim of this study is to investigate contributing factors of high cost of Medicaid…

Bertille Mavegam Assoumou (Medicine), Jennifer Pharr (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Courtney Coughenour (Public Health) published an article, "Food insecurity and risky sexual behaviors among college students during the COVID-19 pandemic," in BMC Public Health.

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) co-published an article titled, “Effects of cinnamon on anthropometric indices and headache-related disability of patients with migraine: A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial,” in association with colleagues from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad University…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual keynote address titled, “The Emergence of the Fourth-generation Multi-theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change in Health Promotion Research,” at the 1st International Health Literacy, Health Education and Health Promotion Congress and the 4th Congress on Health…

Kavita Batra, has been selected to serve as Deputy Editor for Elsevier’s latest publication, Journal of Medicine, Surgery and Public Health. The newly launched journal will take a worldwide view of disease and health, encouraging submissions that look at priority problems and those that take a global, national, or regional…

Buddha Dawn (Medicine) was recently appointed as a member of the Nevada Chapter Council of the American College of Cardiology for a two-year term (July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2025). With 49,000 members, the American College of Cardiology is one of the largest organizations of cardiovascular professionals in the USA and globally. This appointment is a…

Jeremy Kilburn, Angelica Honsberg, and Buddha Dawn (all Medicine) and co-authors from several other institutions recently published an article titled, “Beyond trauma: High-volume critical care medicine in a military medical center-based military-civilian partnership,” in Military Medicine, which is published on behalf of the Association of…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), Christopher Johansen (Social and Behavioral Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), Ravi Batra (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Aditi Singh (Internal Medicine) along with a faculty member from University of Southern Mississippi published…

Dr. Jo-Lawrence Martinez Bigcas, MD, assistant professor and residency program director of UNLV Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, is featured in the first edition of Advancements and Innovations in OMFS, ENT, and Facial Plastic Surgery. In this textbook, Bigcas and his colleague, Dr. Garren Low, author a chapter titled, "Advancements in…

Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) and his colleagues recently published a chapter titled, "Anemia in the Critical Care Setting" for the 9th edition of Irwin and Rippe's Intensive Care Medicine published by Wolters Kluwer.

Mohammad Sohail Akhter (Social and Behavioral Health), an incoming graduate student received the Injury and Prevention Student Research Grant from The Injury and Violence Prevention Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Campus for the academic year 2023-24. His project is titled, “Theory-based determinants of stopping drowsy driving…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) has recently joined the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) Council established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]. The NORA is a partnership program to stimulate innovative research and improved workplace practices. NORA councils are a national venue for individuals and organizations with…