Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Dr. Kavita Batra (Medicine), alongside a team of esteemed Italian researchers, co-authored a thought-provoking editorial titled "Addressing the Crises of Global Mental Health: War, Climate Change, and Technology," published in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences. In this editorial, Dr. Batra and her international colleagues examine the…
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) presented a virtual paper titled, “Synthesizing a pedagogical analysis toward experiential learning of public health doctoral students,” at the 10th International Symposium on Current Developments in Science, Technology, and Social Sciences…
Dr. Elissa J. Palmer (Medicine), professor and chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, has been awarded a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Health Care Administration, Leadership, and Management. The American Board of Medical Specialties approved this new subspecialty. Palmer met all criteria and passed the inaugural…
Grace J. Goodwin (Clinical Psychology) coauthored an article, "Neuropsychiatric symptoms predict rate of change in executive function in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias," where she and fellow Cognitive Aging and Neuropsychological Equity (CANE) lab members Katie T. Singsank (Clinical Psychology), Denise Ruiz de Mendoza Lafont-…
Dr. Erum Chowdhry (Medicine), was awarded the "Outstanding Resident Award" at the Western Medical Research Conference in Carmel, California. She won the award for her presentation, "Improving the Implementation and Knowledge of the Asthma Action Plan (AAP) During the Well Child Visit." This presentation was developed from a quality improvement…
John Rafanan, Nabih Ghani, Sarah Kazemeini, Ahmed Nadeem-Tariq, Ryan Shih, and Thomas A. Vida (all Medicine) published "Modernizing Neuro-Oncology: The Impact of Imaging, Liquid Biopsies, and AI on Diagnosis and Treatment" in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
Brain cancer remains one of the most formidable challenges in modern…
Dr. Buddha Dawn (Medicine) has been awarded a four-year, $2,127,634 National Institutes of Health R01 grant to study the effectiveness of using pre-treated stem cells to repair damaged heart tissue after heart attacks. In addition to generating novel molecular insights into adult stem cell biology, the results of this study may potentially lead to…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) in collaboration with GBD 2021 Diarrhoeal Diseases Collaborators coauthored an article as a senior collaborator titled, “Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific burden of diarrhoeal diseases, their risk factors, and aetiologies, 1990-2021, for 204 countries and territories: a…
Asma Awan, Timothy Grigsby, Christopher Johansen (all Social and Behavioral Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Explaining the Correlates of the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change in Visual (Structural) Colorectal Cancer…
Kirsten Calvin-Dunn (Neuroscience IDP), Amanda Leisgang-Osse (Brain Health), Jeff Kinney (Brain Health), and James Hyman (Psychology) published "Electrophysiological insights into Alzheimer's disease: A review of human and animal studies" in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. This comprehensive review article links together work from animal…
Dr. Jeffrey L. Cummings (Brain Health) is the lead author of recently published article titled, "evoke and evoke+: design of two large-scale, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 studies evaluating efficacy, safety, and tolerability of semaglutide in early-stage symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease." This article is a description of two large…
Dr. Jaineet Chhabra's (Medicine) research presentation titled, "Vascular sports medicine: An emerging niche that may lend to practice innovations," was accepted for the 9th Annual Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine for the Clinician 2025, which will be held March 7-9, 2025, at the Hilton Orlando Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Florida.