The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV was selected for the 2026 Golden Pinecone Sustainability Award in the Sustainability Milestones Southern Nevada category. This award recognizes any organization, business, individual or public figure that has made significant progress towards Nevada’s climate action goals or initiatives or…

Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine), in the most prestigious Elsevier & Stanford database that ranks the top 2% of global scientists across 176 subfields, has been ranked within public health (secondary field: general and internal medicine) as 400th (career) & 119th (single year: 2025) out of 82,273 top 2% public health…

Internal medicine resident Ahmad Malik and second year medical students Kara and Rahul (all Medicine) presented their abstracts at the Nevada ACP state competition.

Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored "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 study is the first Global Burden of Disease publication…

Dr. Kavita Batra (Medicine) has been ranked in the top 0.35% of more than 9.3 million scholars worldwide in the 2026 ScholarGPS rankings. Productivity is her strongest category. ScholarGPS places her research output in the top 0.26% of all scholars worldwide, the top 0.24% in Public Health, and the top 0.15% in Global Health and Social…

Asma Awan (Dental) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) published a policy perspective article with the title, “Federal Policy and the Emerging U.S. Public Health Workforce: Implications for Students and Early-Career Professionals” in the journal Advances in Medicine, Psychology, and Public Health. This policy…

Ian Alexander and Raphael Cohen (Medicine) both won first place at the Nevada ACP abstract competition on Thursday, October 8 and will advance to compete at the national competition.  Internal medicine residents Laceyahna Winland, Sneh Sonaiya and Paul Gastelum Tapia (all Medicine) all placed in the top 3 at the Nevada ACP abstract…

Min Ju Kang (Medicine), along with collaborators Axel Rivas, MD (Medicine alumnus); Jasmin Kumar (Medicine); Paul Janda, DO from the Las Vegas Neurology Center; and Aroucha Vickers, DO from the Las Vegas Neurology Center; published the case report “Sequential Bilateral Optic Neuropathy Associated With IgM-Secreting B-cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma” in…

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine has received a five-year, $2.225 million award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to continue and enhance the Nevada Pediatric Access Line (NV PAL). NV PAL helps primary care clinicians across Nevada address children’s and…

Dr. Deborah Kuhls (Medicine) was elected to the position of vice president of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and as such will serve on their Executive Committee.

Seungman Park (Mechanical Engineering) and Lina R. Nih (Brain Health) have co-authored an article titled “Cellular Viscous Properties in Senescence: An Emerging Biophysical Perspective and Potential Biomarker,” published in the scientific journal Ageing Research Reviews. The publication is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration with Dr.…

Dr. Michael Dalton's (Medicine) manuscript, Geospatial Optimization of Trauma Systems — Local Solutions to a Global Problem, has been published through JAMA Network Open.