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
Faculty and staff joined the dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at his fourth State of the School Address, the second one to be hosted at the Medical Education Building.
UNLV study uses wastewater surveillance model to detect, manage emerging viruses and offer clues on public health challenges of vulnerable populations.
Dedicated to helping underserved communities in Nevada, UNLV Health is leading transformative health care while educating and training Nevada’s future health care practitioners.
Faculty respond to the mental health crisis with multiple programs focused on addressing the shortages and challenges in Nevada on April 5.
The medical school celebrated the class of 2024 matches and welcomed 87 residents to their graduate medical education programs.
The development of a UNLV Academic Health Center will provide high-value quality care for the community, a source of economic diversity for our economy, and cutting-edge research.
Medicine In The News
The path to medicine for John deVries, M.D., was far from traditional. Up through a stint in graduate school, the Detroit native worked in a variety of jobs, including construction, truck driving and gravedigging. DeVries continues to work with his hands today as chief of City of Hope’s Division of Orthopaedic Surgery. He also sees another way that the earlier entries on his resume prepared him for a career in oncology.
Wearing earplugs might seem trivial to the seasoned concertgoer, but if you want to avoid hearing damage this festival season, hear us out. “Once it’s done, there isn’t anything that you can do to reverse it,” UNLV Health senior audiologist Jennifer Cornejo says.
An endowment of $1.05 million will fund career development for women in sports, according to a Wednesday news release from the UNLV Athletics Department. The Diana Bennett Career Development Program for Women’s Sports will provide internship programming, resume building, career professional development and a variety of networking and job experience initiatives. The program is part of the “Rebel Up” Campaign, the Athletics Department said.
You are likely well aware of how to maintain a healthy body and functional mind – with a daily dose of exercise, a good nights’ sleep, and a balanced diet, right? – but what about the one topic you’ve been avoiding? The one that keeps resurfacing under the sheets that can hold you back from being intimate with yourself and others? When your sex drive is dwindling and you are unable to rise to the occasion, it can feel embarrassing and isolating, but you are not alone.
All 12 Women's National Basketball Association teams have a team of trained orthopedic surgeons and physicians providing care for them.
If you haven't heard the terms autosexual or autoeroticism, you're not alone. These two sexual identities and their meanings are still relatively unknown and rarely discussed. But in recent years, there's been more representation of autosexuals who experience autoeroticism in mainstream media.