Dr. David Glenn Weismiller (Medicine) presented (virtually) at the Fourth Congress of the Emirates Family Medicine Society held in March. His presentations at this international medical education conference were "The COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges and Primary Health Care Services" and  "Choosing Wisely - A Means of Integrating…

Dr. Buddha Dawn (Medicine) recently co-authored an article, “WJMSC-derived Small Extracellular Vesicles Enhance T Cell Suppression through PD-L1," in the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, the official journal of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles. The results show that PD-L1 is essential for Wharton’s jelly mesenchymal stem cell…

Ji Won Yoo (Medicine) with a team of physicians from the department of family medicine and neurology from Korea University recently published an article, "Association of High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Variability and the Risk of Developing Parkinson Disease" in the prestigious journal Neurology. The paper explores the longitudinal…

Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration), Ji Yoo, (Medicine), Pearl Kim, '19 PhD Pubic Health, Jinwook Hwang, and others recently published an article, "Trends of Hospital Palliative Care Utilization and Its Associated Factors Among Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in the United States From 2005 to 2014," on American Journal of…

Jay Shen, Pearl Kim (both Healthcare Administration and Policy), and Dr. Ji Yoo (Medicine) recently co-authored an article, "Opioid Use Disorders and Hospital Palliative Care among Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancers: Ten-year Trend and Associated Factors in the U.S. from 2005 to 2014," published on Medicine.

Dr. Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (Medicine) published her paper, “Cancer Survivorship in Hematologic Malignancies: Lifestyle Changes after Diagnosis” in the Cancer Medicine Journal. Wahi-Gururaj and colleagues performed a cross‐sectional study of 116 patients at a community oncology center who completed anonymous questionnaires. The study demonstrates…

Manoj Sharma (Environmental and Occupational Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) in association with Ram Lakhan of Berea College published an invited commentary, “Alcohol Advertising:  Implications for Reducing the Negative Impact on Underage Drinking” in the Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education. The commentary brings to the forefront the…

Dr. Majid Mekany (Medicine) published his paper, “Patient Sleep Quality in Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation,” in PM&R journal. He is a coauthor on this original research project that aimed to assess patient sleep quality in the acute inpatient rehabilitation setting. The authors provided a validated sleep questionnaire to 73 patients admitted to…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-authored an article entitled, "Assessing the Psychological Impact of COVID-19 among College Students: An Evidence of 15 Countries"  with co-authors from Coforge and University of Utah.  The study is a meta-analysis of psychological conditions…

Dr. Ross P. Berkeley (Medicine) presented on "Cognitive Overload: Impact on Quality & Patient Safety" at the annual Southwest Regional Emergency Medicine Conference, along with speakers from multiple other emergency medicine residencies. Berkeley discussed several cases in which cognitive overload contributed to a missed diagnosis, and…

Dr. Nabil Noureddin (Medicine) published a paper, “Sex Differences in Age at Wait-List Registration for Liver Transplantation (LT) with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) as Primary Indication,” in Clinical Transplantation journal. He is the co-first author on this project that showed there is a shift in which NASH is becoming the leading…

Dr. Rajany Dy (Medicine) published an original research paper “Thrombosis, Bleeding, and the Observational Effect of Early Therapeutic Anticoagulation on Survival in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19” in Annals of Internal Medicine Journal. Dy is one of the principal investigators of the STOP-COVID study, a multicenter cohort study of 3,239…