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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

Katie Houk sitting with the medical humanities collection placed around her.
Arts and Culture |

Katie Houk builds a medical humanities collection that gives students at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine space to reflect, create, and better understand the people they will care for.

Eric R. McClintock
People |

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine Alumnus of the Year left biotechnology to join UNLV’s charter class. Now he's teaching the next generation of physicians.

Dr. Laura Shaw treating a patient inside an exam room
Business and Community |

Nevada RESEP is working to ensure those impacted by radioactive fallout receive services, education, and compensation.

UNLV Health Mojave Counseling team members posing for a photo while clients engage in crafting activities.
Business and Community |

At UNLV Health Mojave Counseling, caring for Southern Nevada’s most vulnerable residents means addressing severe mental illness with compassion and resilience.

students walking down stairs past UNLV signage, with the Flashlight sculpture in the background
Campus News |

A selection of prominent headlines featuring UNLV experts from July and August.

Dr. Aftab Merchant and Owen McCloskey in the school of medicine's prosection lab.
Business and Community |

The anatomical education program at the medical school has rapidly evolved into one of the most advanced in the region.

Medicine In The News

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

Team focuses on rising number of e-bike and e-scooter injuries across Nevada.

KSNV-TV: News 3

A long-running UNLV research effort aimed at reducing traffic-related injuries and deaths in Nevada is expanding its focus this year to better understand the growing impact of e-bikes and e-scooters on road safety.

KSNV-TV: News 3

A fourth death has been linked to measles in Pennsylvania and a UNLV doctor is sounding the alarm.

National Geographic

New research suggests there's more than one way to turbocharge your daily walk. 

KSNV-TV: News 3

A newly approved pancreatic cancer drug is offering new hope for some patients, but its nearly half-million-dollar price tag is raising questions about who will be able to access it and how families might afford it.

Santa Fe New Mexican

Researchers from New Mexico State University and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, have found no link between weight loss drugs and major psychiatric harm, following a review of current scientific evidence on the subject.

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Recent Medicine Accomplishments

Assistant professor Bonhak Koo (Hospitality) and his coauthors received the Best Paper Award at the GLOTECH 2026 Conference for their paper, “Hospitality’s Empathic Friend: How an Emotional Support AI Chatbot Can Be Used for Early Detection and Intervention for Employees’ Psychological Distress.” This interdisciplinary research was conducted in…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored and published a study "State-level burden of chronic respiratory diseases in the USA, 1990–2023, with forecasts to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023" in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine. Authors emphasized that State-level policy environments, including fiscal and preventive…
Kavita Batra, Aditi Singh, Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (all Medicine), along with their collaborators from the University of California, San Francisco and Creighton University School of Medicine, published "Characteristics and Success of Internal Medicine Applicants to Subspecialty Fellowships" in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Drawing on…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored a study, "Global, regional, and national prevalence of second-hand smoke and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023," published in The Lancet Public Health. The first dedicated analysis of second-hand smoke as a…
Five years of evidence deliver a reassuring message: GLP-1 medicines are not linked to major psychiatric harm. Research co-authored by Kavita Batra (Medicine), Jagdish Khubchandani from New Mexico State University, and colleagues found no increased risk of suicidal thoughts, depression, or other serious psychiatric outcomes in the general treated…
Grants and Research Director Noehealani Antolin (Medicine) served as an invited panelist at the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) Annual Conference, held August 29–September 2, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Antolin was one of five panelists in the session "Riding Safe: Electric Bikes, Scooters and the Road Ahead," which examined how…