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School of Integrated Health Sciences News

With many degree offerings that are accredited by national organizations, the School of Integrated Health Sciences offers dynamic classroom instruction, laboratory/clinical practice, research, and mentoring. Our students develop skills that help them break into health-related fields and further their graduate or professional studies.

Current Integrated Health Sciences News

UNLV researchers looking at brain scan peer through glass at fRMI machine
Research |

UNLV boasts Nevada’s only MRI facility dedicated to university research. Here’s what our professors hope to discover with it.

Kayla Ford and an OT student use infant mannequins to practice techniques
People |

Kayla Ford was among the first students in the university's OT program. Now she teaches mental health-related courses in the School of Integrated Health Sciences.

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Campus News |

A collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

Brad Solomon stands second from right next to a UNLV slot machine
People |

Bradford Solomon credits nutrition and a healthy lifestyle as a way to make a difference on and off the field.

Baseball Coach Nick Garritano in front of field with Vegas Strip in background
Athletics |

More than three decades after a record-setting place-kicking career with UNLV football, Las Vegas baseball coaching legend Nick Garritano tapped to lead the Hustlin’ Rebels.

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Campus News |

A collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

Integrated Health Sciences In The News

Substack

John Mercer at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has published a brief report with Katsiaryna Afanasyeva and colleagues in the International Journal of Exercise Science on core temperature in triathletes swimming in warm open water, with and without a wetsuit.

MarketWatch

Social media and GLP-1s are spurring increased interest in hydration products, and companies are responding with things like electrolyte mixes and ‘hydrating hot chocolate’.

Morningstar

Social media and GLP-1s are spurring increased interest in hydration products, and companies are responding with things like electrolyte mixes and 'hydrating hot chocolate'

Medium

A passionate golfer on the transfer problem in golf practice: what forty years of motor-learning research explains, what good Tour caddies have always practiced, and how applied AI can close that gap.

Us Weekly

Most people are getting fibermaxxing wrong — and they don’t even know it.

Woman’s World

Fibermaxxing is trending — but doubling your fiber overnight could seriously wreck your gut health.

Integrated Health Sciences Experts

An expert in physical therapy, rehabilitation epidemiology, and hospital mobility.
An expert in physical therapy and movement disorders, including Parkinson's.
An expert in radiology and medical imaging.
An expert in radiography and diagnostic medical imaging.
A physical therapist with expertise on knee, tissue, joint, and tendon conditions.
An expert in child psychology and trauma, ADHD, and chronic diseases in children such as sickle cell.

Recent Integrated Health Sciences Accomplishments

Douglas Eck and Rebecca Peterson (both Physical Therapy) will present a poster titled “Bridging the Gap: Operationalizing the PVA Bone Health Guidelines through Health Literacy and Community Engagement” at the Paralyzed Veterans of America Summit+Expo 2026 in Las Vegas. The poster explores strategies for translating clinical bone health guidelines…
Douglas Eck (Physical Therapy) and colleague Kristen Cezat will deliver a presentation titled “Standing with Confidence: Aligning Evidence-Based Frameworks to Optimize Standing-Related Complex Rehab Technology Selection” at the upcoming Paralyzed Veterans of America conference held in Las Vegas. Scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, their talk…
Faculty and students from the Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences department recently published results of a study. Faculty (James Navalta, Dustin Davis, and Michael Wong) and students (Olivia Perez, Carolina Silva, and Matahn Blank) published "A Gender-agnostic Inclusive Estimation for Resting Metabolic Rate" in the International Journal of…
Ernesto Abel-Santos (Chemistry and Biochemistry), Rochelle Hines (Psychology), Brach Poston (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a $2,189,956 National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 grant, the Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (GRISE), for 2026-31. The…
Esther Adaji (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) presented findings from a collaborative research study titled “Barriers and Facilitators to Healthy Eating Among U.S. School-Aged Children: A Qualitative Systematic Review” at the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB) Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. The study examined factors…
Faculty from the kinesiology and nutrition sciences department (James Navalta, Dustin Davis) and the Center for Health Disparities Research, department of social and behavioral health (Jason Flatt) along with collaborators (Joshua D. Wooldridge - Moravian University, Juliet Moore - University of Delaware, Jafra Thomas - …