Dr. Aditi Singh (Residency Program Director, Internal Medicine) recently received a "Distinguished Teacher/Mentor Award" from the American College of Physicians (ACP) Nevada Chapter, 2022. Dr. Singh received this award in 2017, as well, which demonstrates her continued efforts and excellence in mentoring medical residents. Additionally, she is the…

Dr. Jeffrey Ebersole (Dental) co-authored “Mucosal circadian rhythm pathway genes altered by aging and periodontitis,” which published in the December 6 issue of PLoS ONE. The study examined the expression of circadian rhythm genes in periodontitis, and concluded that variation in disease expression and the underlying molecular mechanisms of…

Katherine Howard, Karl Kingsley, Matthew Hunsaker, Adelle Fuller, and Brandon Richards (all Dental Medicine) recently published their study, "Expression of Exosome-Derived MicroRNAs miR-21 and miR-135 are Differentially Regulated Among Dental Pulp Stem Cells," in the latest issue of Current Research in Medicine. 

Ahmad Gill, Omar Al-Taweel, Sadaf Fakhra, Kyaw Min Tun, Dalia Hawwass, and Chowdhury Ahsan (all Medicine) published, "Short-term Outcomes of Patients Transferred From Non-Acute Care Centers With Sick Sinus Syndrome," in the European Heart Journal.

Congratulations to Jenna Sutton, Hazem Aboaid, and Lubaba Haque (all Medicine) for winning the Nevada ACP Chapter Doctor's Dilemma. They will be representing Nevada at the National ACP Doctor's Dilemma Competition!

Mark Chang (Internal Medicine) and colleagues published the article, "Genomic and Transcriptomic Predictors of Response from Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Patients with Oligoprogressive Renal Cell Carcinome," in European Urology Oncology.

Laura V. Martinez (Communication Studies) and her co-authors Alaina C. Zanin and Sarah J. Tracy from Arizona State University have been named recipients of the Top Paper Award for their work: "Occupational Socialization and Identification in Pain Work: (Re)Conceptualizing the Experience of Pain as an Interactional, Co-constructed Process." The…

Natalie Pennington (Communication Studies) was acknowledged as one of the top 25 researchers within the Communication Studies discipline over the past five years in a recent publication in the journal, Communication Education titled, "Scholarly productivity in communication studies: A five-year review (2017-2021)." In the study, the authors…

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article titled "Efficacy of pyriproxyfen-pyrethroid long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and chlorfenapyr-pyrethroid LLINs compared with pyrethroid-only LLINs for malaria control in Benin: a cluster-randomised, superiority trial" in The Lancet journal.  New classes of…