Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV

Ana Corral (Libraries, Medicine) recently served as an expert List Selector for the July 2026 Doody's Special Topics List, "Resident Preparation & Well-Being." As part of a three-member team, she researched and co-curated a collection of 47 essential books and resources that help health sciences librarians and medical institutions worldwide…
Asma Awan (Dental) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) presented a virtual talk titled, “Strengthening Local Public Health Workforce Capacity through Experiential Learning: Outcomes from an ARPA-Funded Workforce Pipeline Initiative” at the 2026 NACCHO360 Conference, held in Louisville, KY form July 13-17, 2026. The…
Deborah Kuhls, MD (Medicine) was awarded the Mitchell D. Forman, DO Award for Execmplary Dedication to the Medical Education of Future Nevada Physicians at the Clark County Medical Society 72nd Presidential Installation and Awards Ceremony held on June 20, 2026. 
Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine), professor and section chief of hematology, and his mentee from the University of California San Francisco recently published a chapter in the book, Blood Substitutes and Oxygen Biotherapeutics, published by Springer. Their chapter, titled, "The Erythrocruorins as Synthetic Blood Products: What Is New?," describes the…
Terrence Sanvictores (Medicine) published an original case report with Johnson Ukken (Medicine) on a rare presentation of hemidiaphragmatic segmental zoster paresis in the Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases. Sanvictores T, Ukken J. Hemidiaphragmatic segmental zoster paresis. AIMClinicalCases. 2026;5:e250824. doi:10.7326/aimcc.2025.0824
David Basulto; Jacqueline Gamboa; Guadalupe Vazquez-Perez; Vidhani Goel;Roberto Sagaribay; Jyoti Desai; and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) published a study "Educational Interventions for Labor Epidural Awareness in the United States: Protocol for a Scoping Review" in JMIR Research Protocols. This scoping review aims to map the extent,…
Researchers from the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, including Dr. Deborah Kuhls (Medicine), published the following article on workplace violence in trauma centers: Liepert A, Fallat M, Capella J, Fox A, Kuhls D, Galink G, Fischer P, Gates J, Toscano N, Kelley K, Chung S, Doucet J. Workplace violence in trauma centers is a…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored a manuscript titled “Application of the multi-theory model to improve self-reported determinants of appropriate antibiotic prescribing among veterinary students” with coauthors from Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bam University of Medical Sciences, University of…
Researchers from the CANE (Cognitive Aging & Neuropsychological Equity) Lab: Stacey Moeller (Clinical Psychology), Katie Singsank (Clinical Psychology), Grace Goodwin (Clinical Psychology), and Samantha John (Brain Health), along with collaborators, published a study in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled “Development and validation of the Persian childbearing intention questionnaire based on the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) among women with only one child” in the Journal of Research Development in Nursing and Midwifery (Impact factor 0.29) in association with…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled “Caregiver concerns about preschoolers’ overweight/obesity and undereating and their associations with feeding practices in China” in the journal Archives of Public Health (Impact factor 3.4) in association with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with GBD 2023 TB HIV Collaborators, coauthored “Global, regional, and national burden of tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis by HIV status, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023” published in The Lancet.…