Gregory Brown, Kavita Batra, Emily Dorin, Raveena Bakhru, Andrew Han, Arianna Palermini, Robert Sottile, and Sherine Khanbijian (all Medicine) presented a poster of their study, "Comparing AIT and EFT in Reduction of Negative Emotions Associated with a Past Memory: A Randomized Control Study," at the Association of Comprehensive Energy…

Aaron Peterson, Philip Borsellino, Ryder Davidson, Edozie Ezeanoloue, Gemma Lagasca, Jared Diaz, Kavita Batra, and Anne Weisman (all Medicine) published a study, "The Effectiveness of Mind-Body Intervention on Psychological Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pilot Pre-Post Interventional Study," in the Healthcare journal. Peterson,…

The Nevada Interprofessional Healthy Aging Network (NIHAN) was awarded a five-year grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to continue their efforts to support healthy aging. Led by Ji Won Yoo, MD, associate professor and director of the geriatric fellowship program in the department of internal medicine, NIHAN aims to…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article within the GBD 2021 Diseases and Injuries Collaborators team titled, “Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article within the GBD 2021 Forecasting Collaborators team titled, “Burden of Disease Scenarios for 204 Countries and Territories, 2022-2050: A Forecasting Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” in the journal, Lancet (Impact factor 168.9). The article…

Kyaw Min Tun, Kavita Batra, Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj, and Aditi Singh (all Medicine) with Neil Zhang (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) and Atif Qasim (University of California San Francisco School of Medicine) presented their study, "Predictors of successful match into Gastroenterology fellowship" at the Digestive Disease Week (DDW)- 2024 held in…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Ravi Batra (Public Health) (as a part of GBD 2021 risk factors collaborators) contributed to a recent study, "Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021," published in Lancet. This…

Robert Swaim, Nancy Delcid, Kenneth Izuora (all Medicine) published findings of a quality improvement project looking at the accuracy of vaccine documentation in the electronic medical record. The abstract for this project was presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (May 9 - 11).

Dr. Gregory Brown (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health; Medicine) and colleagues published an article in Academic Psychiatry proposing updated guidelines for professional training.

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Jennifer Pharr (Public Health), along with an interdisciplinary team of experts that include Aditi Singh, Deborah Kuhls, and Lorraine Evangelista, received a Faculty Opportunity Grant for their pilot project, "Persistent Racism in Sexual Minorities (PRISM): A Two-pronged Approach to Understand Intersecting Axes of…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with researchers from different countries, including Italy, Morocco, Lebanon, Iran, and Poland, published an editorial, "Bridging ethics and spirituality in healthcare policies for a holistic response to climate change, new pandemics and global health challenges: A call to action," in the Advances in Medicine,…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an interdisciplinary research article titled, “Explaining the barriers faced by veterinarians against preventing antimicrobial resistance: An innovative interdisciplinary qualitative study,” with researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, Hormozgan…