Eileen Enriquez and Sierra McCarty (both School of Medicine students) helped advance state policy at the 2025 Nevada State Medical Association (NSMA) Annual House of Delegates with the adoption of Resolution E22, Regulate Troubled Teen Organizations. They authored the resolution, which addresses widespread safety, oversight, and accountability…

Eileen Enriquez and Sierra McCarty (both School of Medicine students) helped advance state policy at the 2025 Nevada State Medical Association (NSMA) Annual House of Delegates with the adoption of Resolution 15, Regulate Gamete Donation. They authored the resolution, which addresses growing gaps in oversight of assisted reproductive technologies…

A research poster titled Cross-State Consequences of Rural Hospital Closures: Simulating Healthcare System Strain in the I-15 Corridor After “The Big Beautiful Bill” was presented at the 2025 Nevada State Medical Association (NSMA) Annual House of Delegates. Authored by student Micah Char and assistant professor Amy Stone (both Medicine), the…

Micah Char (Medicine student) helped advance state public health advocacy at the 2025 Nevada State Medical Association (NSMA) Annual House of Delegates with the adoption of Resolution 10, Prohibit Speed Enhancements on E-Bikes and E-Scooters. He authored the resolution, which highlights the sharp rise in micromobility-related injuries and…

UNLV School of Medicine students helped advance state policy at the 2025 Nevada State Medical Association (NSMA) Annual House of Delegates with the adoption of Resolution E23, Address Public Health Risks of Online Sports Betting. The resolution was led by Ryan Jannoud, with coauthors Eileen Enriquez and Gwen Metcalf (all Medicine). The resolution…

Austin Horng-En Wang (Political Science) published an article, "U.S.-China Competition for Artificial Intelligence Markets", with RAND Corporation. This article analyzes the global LLM traffic and show that (1) US-based LLM dominance, 93% of global traffic, (2) DeepSeek increased China-based LLM global share from 3% to 13% within one month,…

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Couple and Family Therapy Program is representing UNLV worldwide. Drs. Sara Jordan and Vaida Kazlauskaite, along with several students from the program, presented at the 2026 Oslo Communication in Healthcare Education and Research (OCHER) Conference in Oslo, Norway.   Their presentations included…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published the article, “Global, regional, and national burden of chronic respiratory diseases and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, 1990–2023: A Global Burden of Disease study,” as a senior collaborator in the journal, Nature Medicine (Impact factor 50.0). The study found that globally…

Iesha Jackson (Teacher Education), Catharine Lory (Special Education), Vanessa Nunez (Sociology), and Camisha Fagan (Sociology) coauthored an article titled, “(Em)bracing ourselves: Women of Color in the academy supporting each other through troubling times,” in Current Issues in Education. The article emphasizes the importance of cultivating…