Paul Harasim (Medicine) has been selected to serve as a judge for the AAMC's 2021 Group on Institutional Advancement Awards for Excellence Competition. This competition is an annual, peer-reviewed competition that recognizes outstanding work by members of the group and their staff. The awards honor the most creative and effective approaches…

Wonda Riner (Medicine) is honored to serve as a 2020 Top Tech Award judge. The Top Tech Awards recognize top information technology leadership in Las Vegas, as nominated by peers and/or clients. This is the 10th anniversary of this prestigious awards program which honors the many individuals who use information technology in a competitive and…

Dr. Nabil Noureddin (Medicine) published his manuscript, “Noninvasive Testing Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques as Outcomes in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Clinical Trials: How Full Is the Glass?” in the Hepatology Communications Journal. Noureddin is the first author on this editorial that emphasized how MRI techniques can accurately…

Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) published an editorial in The Sun titled, "In Wildfires and Pandemics, 'It's Not Just the Match — It's Where It Lands,'" discussing the context of health care disparities and limited access to health as a substrate for the current pandemic.

Dr. Banveet Kaur (Medicine) published her manuscript, “Artificial Intelligence Trumps TAVI2-SCORE and CoreValve Score in Predicting 1-year Mortality Post Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement” in the Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine Journal. This study of 1,055 patients utilized the Gradient Boosting Machine learning (GBM) prediction…

Dr. Neilmegh Varada (Medicine) published his manuscript, “Horner Syndrome Induced by Toxoplasmosis Infection in a Patient with AIDS and Disseminated Herpes Simplex Virus” at American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports. This is the first reported case of Horner syndrome resulting from CNS toxoplasmosis. Varada and his co-authors concluded that…

Vegas Inc.'s Healthcare Quarterly recently recognized 12 UNLV School of Medicine faculty physicians as "Top Docs" in its summer issue. Those recognized are:   Dr. Buddha Dawn - Cardiology Dr. Matthew Ng - Ear, Nose, and Throat Dr. Robert Wang - Ear, Nose, and Throat Dr. Kenneth Izuora - Endocrinology Dr. Gordon Ohning -…

Dr. Katerina Roma (Medicine) published her manuscript, “Late Stage Diagnosis of Mucinous Adenocarcinoma of the Appendix: Case Report of an Unusual Tumor with a Rare Presentation” in the BMC Gastroenterology. After a thorough literature review, she reported for the first time a case of mucinous adenocarcinoma of the appendix presenting as…

Renato "Rainier" M. Liboro (Psychology), Jason Flatt (Environmental and Occupational Health), and Dr. Samuel Parrish (Medicine), served as panelists on a virtual presentation on "Health Disparities in the LGBTQ+ Community," earlier this month. The event was presented to diverse students of the School of Medicine and was sponsored by the registered…

Dr. John Fildes, Dr. Michael Gardner, and Dr. Deborah Kuhls (all Medicine) have been recognized by Nevada Business Magazine as Healthcare Heroes for 2020. The awards are: Fildes in the Lifetime Achievement category Gardner in the Humanitarian category Kuhls in the Physician category They were selected by a panel of judges from the Nevada…

Dr. Joshua J. Goldman, Dr. Richard Baynosa (both Medicine) and the Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery were awarded a $5,000 Breast Reconstruction Awareness Fund Public Awareness Award to directly support efforts to increase breast reconstruction surgery awareness and education to women and their family members. Nevada is in…

Dr. Nabil Noureddin (Medicine) recently published a manuscript, “Driving NASH Forward Using the FAST Score but Obey the Traffic Lights,” in Hepatology Journal. He is the first author on the paper that commented on a recent study that developed a non-invasive score to identify patients at risk of progressive nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH…