Reimund Serafica (Nursing) presented two papers at the 48th Annual Transcultural Nursing Conference. One paper is titled, "A Study of Perceived Stress and Its Correlates Among Filipinos in the United States and Their Filipino Counterparts in the Philippines" (with research from UNLV Nursing Associate Dean of Research Lorraine Evangelista…

Dr. Deborah A. Kuhls (Medicine), professor of surgery, received the "Emergency Medicine Implementer of the Year" Traffic Safety Award during the 2022 Nevada Traffic Safety Summit, which was held on Oct. 19-20 in Carson City, Nevada.

Dr. Deborah Kuhls (Medicine), professor of surgery presented, "Women in Trauma Surgery," at the 70th Annual Detroit Trauma Symposium on Nov. 3, 2022.

Kathleen Thimsen (Nursing) presented at the Nurses Summit on Combatting and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting, an international group that raises awareness about forced organ harvesting. This was the first summit involving nursing professionals on this issue. 

Graduate student Elizabeth León Zaragoza, Nancy Lough (Higher Education), Michelle Samuel, and Tedd Girouard (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) have co-authored a recent article published in the Athletic Training Education Journal. The study assessed the levels of cultural competence of athletic training clinical preceptors. Results…

Dr. Christine Ancajas, Dr. Georgia Dounis, and Dr. Hassan Ziada (all Dental Medicine) received their inductions as fellows of the American College of Dentists during the American Dental Association’s annual meeting in October. The American College of Dentists strives to advance excellence, ethics, professionalism, and leadership in dentistry, and…

Dr. Jyoti Mago (Dental Medicine) and alumna Dr. Nicole Ameli (DMD ‘19) presented their poster titled, “Ultrasonography in the diagnosis of benign pathologic entities,” during the recent AAOMR (American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology) meeting. Their work concluded that ultrasonography has the greatest soft tissue spatial resolution.…

Ann Vuong (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) co-published an article on "Childhood urinary organophosphate esters and cognitive abilities in a longitudinal cohort study" in the journal Environmental Research. The purpose of this study was to examine associations between urinary metabolites of three common organophosphate esters (OPEs) measured up…

Hal Berghel (Computer Science) co-authored an article titled, "Ukraine Aftershocks," which appears in the current issue of IEEE Computer. This article calls attention to two aftershocks of the Ukraine-Russia war: Asymmetric warfare and the resilience of Ukraine's software outsourcing capability.