Johan Bester (Medicine) recently presented at the 2022 Association of American Medical Colleges Western Group on Educational Affairs regional meeting. His presentation, “How to Make Your Students Love Epidemiology,” won the Medical Education Scholarship, Research and Evaluation (MESRE) Section Award of Excellence for best poster in the category of…

Kathleen Thimsen and Paul Thomas Clements (both Nursing) have been appointed as associate editors for the Journal of the Academy of Forensic Nursing.

Jeffrey Ebersole and Linh Nguyen (both Dental) co-authored “Gingival Transcriptome of Innate Antimicrobial Factors and the Oral Microbiome With Aging and Periodontitis,” which published March 7 in Frontiers in Oral Health.

Tim Grigsby (Social & Behavioral Health) co-authored an article, "Adverse Childhood Experiences and Sleep Difficulties among Young Adult College Students" in the Journal of Sleep Research. This study examined the adverse childhood experience–sleep health (self-reported sleep difficulty and diagnosis of insomnia or “other” sleep disorder)…

Barbara Tabach (Oral History Research Center) received the Mink Award at the Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA) annual conference. The Mink Award is SOHA's highest honor and recognized Tabach's nearly 15 years of preserving local history through oral history interviews.   

Drs. KaChon Lei, Toyokazu Endo, and Chowdhury Ahsan (all Medicine) published the article "Cardiac Tumor In The Left Ventricular Outflow Tract: Atypical Presentation of Calcified Amorphous Tumor" in the Journal of Surgical Case Reports. Calcified amorphous tumor (CAT) of the heart is a rare non-neoplastic tumor. The authors report a 71-year-old…

Dr. Christina Demopoulos and Melissa Argueta (both Dental) surpassed their 10,000th screening within the Early Childhood Caries Prevention Project (ECCPP). Started in 2017, ECCPP aims to reduce the number of children with cavities by the time they enroll in kindergarten by providing preventive dental services in federally funded Early Head Start…

Bridget Cowan Longoria (Sociology) was a guest speaker on KNPR's State of Nevada segment "Minneapolis-based Nonprofit Expanding to Las Vegas to Help Struggling Single Moms" as an expert in the sociology of poverty. 

Soumya Upadhyay (Healthcare Administration & Policy) is the author of a paper, "Physician-Hospital Integration and its Effect on Hospital Performance: A Study of U.S. Hospitals," that has been accepted into the 82nd annual meeting of the Academy of Management. The meeting will take place  in August. Upadhyay's paper has been judged as…