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Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV News

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV is becoming a world-class center for medical education, patient care, and research. We aim to prepare Nevada's doctors with the most innovative and technologically advanced forms of medical training while also forming community partnerships to serve the healthcare needs of our diverse and urban population.

Current Medicine News

Edwin Avallone, DO (left), with third-year, internal medicine resident Ryan Parto, MD (right).
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Dr. Edwin Avallone mentors internal medicine residents at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, emphasizing diagnostic reasoning and patient-centered care.

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A collection of top headlines featuring UNLV faculty and students.

Alexander Turner, MD, third-year resident in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine
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Resident physician Alexander Turner shares his journey to emergency medicine and how he plans to stay in Las Vegas after completing his training.

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UNLV-led research team uses wastewater surveillance to suss out C. auris strains with greater precision, paving way for potential new therapeutic development.

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Tenth annual report led by noted clinician-scientist Dr. Jeffrey Cummings tracks status, trends associated with 192 active clinical trials worldwide.

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The conference connects entertainment, medicine, academia, and research through live performance, presentations, networking, and more.

Medicine In The News

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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new sunscreen active ingredient for use in over-the-counter products, marking the first time in roughly 20 years that Americans will have access to a new formula.

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Professional acrobats, circus performers, physicians and researchers gathered Saturday at UNLV for a conference aimed at improving medical care for performers whose jobs demand extreme strength, flexibility and endurance.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Provider shortages in any field are problematic for a myriad of reasons, the main one being access. Without access, it is extremely difficult to receive timely care. A program called BeHERENV was created to address this issue.

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Research shows that a novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, raising hopes of long-needed better treatments for one of the deadliest types of cancer. The drug is called daraxonrasib and it blocks a mutated protein that fuels tumor growth in more than 90% of pancreatic cancer cases — a target that had eluded treatment for decades.

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Southern Nevada is seeing its first reported case of West Nile virus this season, with Clark County confirming an infection in a local resident.

The Independent UK

Study comes amid growing calls to end the seasonal practice of changing clocks in the U.S.

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Recent Medicine Accomplishments

Larissa McNeil and Allison McNickle (Surgery) along with Jayme Ching and Yvonne Ramos (collaborators from University Medical Center) published a study "A Retrospective Evaluation of Psychiatric Recommendations Using the Injured Trauma Survivor Screen" in The American Surgeon.  This study evaluated mental health screening practices in trauma…
A collaborative research team from the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and New Mexico State University (NMSU) has received extensive national and international media attention for its recent study examining the impact of Daylight Saving Time (DST) on mental health and neuropsychological outcomes. The study "When the Clock Shifts: A…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) has been invited to serve on the Editorial Board of the journal Vaccines in recognition of her extensive scholarship and expertise in immunization equity, vaccine-preventable diseases, and public health research. Dr. Batra currently holds leadership and editorial roles with several prominent journals, including Annals of…
Ravi Batra (Public Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2023 Collaborators, have published a study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases titled “Global burden of enteric infectious diseases, diarrhoeal diseases, and corresponding aetiologies, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) as a senior collaborator with GBD 2023 Diarrhoeal Disease and Enteric Infectious Diseases, published an article titled, “Global burden of enteric infectious diseases, diarrhoeal diseases, and corresponding aetiologies, 1990–2023: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease…
Vidhani S. Goel (Medicine) was recognized as the Undergraduate Student Employee of the Year at the UNLV Rebel Awards for her exceptional contributions as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine. She provided research and methodological support to medical trainees and faculty, including study design, data…