Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV

Kyaw MinTun; MarkHsu; Kavita Batra; Chun-Han Lo; Tooba Laeeq; Tahne Vongsavath; Salman Mohammed; and Annie Hong (all Internal Medicine), published, "Efficacy and Safety of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Treatment of Clostridioides Difficile Infection Among Pediatric Patients: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis in the journal,…
Matthew Gyger (Social Work), Stephanie Borene (Educational Outreach), Ramona Denby (Social Work), and Sara Hunt (Medicine), along with Efren Gomez from the University of Michigan and Amanda Klein-Cox from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, co-authored the paper, "Using SBIRT (Screen, Brief Intervention, and Referral to…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has once again been listed on Elsevier and Stanford University’s annual report of the top-cited researchers from across the globe based on the work completed during a single year and throughout the person’s career. The most recent list was published on Oct. 10, 2022, in PLOS Biology.…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has published a book titled, Evaluation and Measurement in Health Promotion, with Dr. Rick Lingyak Petosa of The Ohio State University through the publisher Wiley. The book guides current and future public health professionals in becoming experimenting practitioners who take a data-…
Crystal Oden, Emily Weinschreider, and Hilary Linzie (all Medicine) published an article titled, "Self-inflicted Stabbings as Non-fatal Suicide Attempts: A Systematic Review and Case Series," in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Oden and Weinschreider are medical students at the Kirk Kerkorian School of…
Andrew Manfra, MD; Claire Chen, DO; Kavita Batra Ph.D.; Kyaw Min Tun, DO; and Mutsumi John Kioka, MD (all Internal Medicine) published the article, "Factors Associated With Improved Outcome of Inhaled Corticosteroid Use in COVID-19: A Single Institutional Study," in the journal Medicine.
Chalette Lambert-Swainston (Internal Medicine) and colleagues published the article, "High-fidelity Detection, Subtyping, and Localization of Five Skin Neoplasms Using Supervised and Semi-supervised Learning," in the Journal of Pathology Informatics.
Kevin Burningham (Internal Medicine) and colleagues published an article, "Cost Effectiveness of Melanoma in Situ Resection and Repair by Dermatology Compared to Non-Dermatology Specialties at a Single Institution," in the journal Archives of Dermatology Research.
Cortney Soderlind Warren, adjunct clinical faculty member, (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health) recently published: Letting Go of Your Ex: CBT Skills to Heal the Pain of a Breakup and Overcome Love Addiction. Written by a psychologist and leading love addiction expert, Letting Go of Your Ex  offers powerful, evidence-based…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) has coauthored an article titled, “Differences in Awareness of Chinese Dietary Guidelines Among Urban and Rural Residents: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Southwest China,” in the International Journal of Public Health in collaboration with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University and…
Buddha Dawn (Medicine) delivered an invited seminar for master's students at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. His lecture titled, “Heart failure: Pathophysiology and cellular therapy,” discussed the molecular and neurohormonal underpinnings of guideline-directed heart failure management, and also…
Ross P. Berkeley, MD, and Kristina H. Domanski, MBBS, (both Emergency Medicine), recently published a manuscript titled, "Impact of the Las Vegas Mass Shooting Event on the Graduate Medical Education Mission: Can There Be Growth from Tragedy?," in the peer-reviewed Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. A cross-sectional survey was…