Emily C. Strickler (Medicine, '22 Public Health alumna) was nominated by the UNLV School of Public Health's Delta Theta chapter of the Delta Omega Honor Society to present her thesis research at the 2022 Delta Omega poster session at the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting. Strickler was one of 29 students invited to present…

The UNLV Division of Acute Care Surgery worked with the UNLV Office of Traffic Safety to publish "Higher risk of auto versus pedestrian crashes in school-age children on school days" in the ​​​​​​Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. The study evaluated children who were hit by cars in Las Vegas and found that the risk of crash…

Allison McNickle, Stephanie Jones, Mais Yacoub, Stephanie Streit, Judith Ben Ari, and Douglas Fraser (all Medicine) co-authored "BIG Kids" Application of a modified brain injury guideline in a pediatric trauma center," published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery in collaboration with Dina Bailey of UMC Trauma Services. This study evaluated the…

Mary Froehlich, Allison McNickle, and Douglas Fraser (all Medicine) co-authored an article "Airway Management in Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wounds to the Face" published in Surgery in Practice and Science.  This study investigated the institutional practices for managing the airway in patients with severe facial trauma.

Samantha Slinkard-Barnum (Medicine) presented her work at the international Trauma Quality Improvement Program 2020 virtual Annual Scientific Meeting. Her poster, Development of an Injury Prevention Evaluation Toolkit (IP-ET) for Trauma Center Injury Prevention Programs: Building Self Efficacy and Evaluation Capacity" was co-authored by Laura…