Salman Mohammed, Dr. Ross P. Berkeley, and Dr. David Slattery (all Medicine) recently published a manuscript, "Injury Characteristics, Outcomes, and Health Care Services Use Associated with Nonfatal Injuries Sustained in Mass Shootings in the US, 2012-2019," in the peer-reviewed JAMA Network Open. Utilizing data from 31 hospitals, this…

Dr. Jo-Lawrence Martinez Bigcas (Medicine) was recently a guest speaker at Advancements and Innovations in Surgery: OMFS, ENT, Head and Neck, & Facial Plastics, an international multidisciplinary conference in San Diego. He represented the UNLV's robust head and neck oncologic surgery program with his presentation, "Advancements and…

Kristin Steffen (Medicine) received the Outstanding Part-time Instructor award from the UNLV School of Public Health in April. The senior director of faculty affairs and interim director of continuing medical education at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, she teaches the Public Health Fundamentals for Health Care Leaders course in the…

Shaun Andersen, along with co-authors Josh Levy, Hiba Kausar, Deepal Patel, and Edward Simanton (all Medicine), won Best Student Poster at the annual meeting of the International Association of Medical Science Educators. The poster was titled Medical School Benchmark Performance Based on College Competitiveness. Three other presenters from UNLV…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with a researcher from Fiji, published an article, "Knowledge or Awareness of Non-communicable Diseases and their Associated Risk Factors among University Students from Fiji: A Cross-sectional Study ," in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences. Additionally, Batra, along with a researcher from Indiana, published…

Kyaw Min Tun, Annie S. Hong, Kavita Batra, Yassin Naga and Gordon Ohning (all Medicine), published an article, "A Systematic Review of the Efficacy and Safety of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in the Treatment of Hepatic Encephalopathy and Clostridioides difficile Infection in Patients With Cirrhosis" in the Cureus journal.

Thomas Vida, Robert Sotille, Herpreet Singh, and Anne Weisman (all Medicine) published a review article, "Unraveling the Mysteries of Mental Illness with Psilocybin," in the journal Cureus. This article reviews the role of psilocybin as a therapeutic molecule to treat mental illness. Sotille and Singh are students.

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) delivered an invited talk, “Utilizing the Multi-theory Model (MTM) to Measure Determinants of the Intent to Overcome Implicit Bias among Emergency Department Personnel” to the Florida State University Emergency Medicine’s Annual Research Day. The talk highlighted a joint…

Sungyoun Chun, Jinwook Hwang, Pearl Kim, Jay Shen (all Healthcare Administration), Dr. Ji Yoo (Medicine), and Seong Park (Criminal Justice) recently published a paper, “Trends and Age-related Characteristics of Substance Use Hospitalizations of Homeless Population: 2007-2015"  on Medicine.

Edward Wang, Ravisha Bai, Talha Khan, Ajay Kumar, Ana Mrkaic, Amber Champion, Charmaine Yap, and Kenneth Izuora (all Medicine) presented four abstracts,  Thyroid Myopathy after Receiving COVID-19 Vaccine, Methimazole Induced Steven-Johnson-Syndrome, Levothyroxine Intolerance: Alternative Approach and A Case of McCune Albright Syndrome…

Dr. Deborah A. Kuhls (Medicine) accepted the invitation to serve as a representation for the American College of Surgeons to the University of Michigan's Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention External Advisory Committee.

Dr. Aditi Singh and Dr. Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (both Medicine), along with former School of Medicine faculty member Dr. Miriam Bar-on, presented their initiative, "Wellness on a Budget," as a poster at the Association for Hospital Medical Education's Annual AHME Institute and at the American Association of American Medical Colleges…