Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Dr. Erum Chowdhry (Medicine), was awarded the "Outstanding Resident Award" at the Western Medical Research Conference in Carmel, California. She won the award for her presentation, "Improving the Implementation and Knowledge of the Asthma Action Plan (AAP) During the Well Child Visit." This presentation was developed from a quality improvement…
John Rafanan, Nabih Ghani, Sarah Kazemeini, Ahmed Nadeem-Tariq, Ryan Shih, and Thomas A. Vida (all Medicine) published "Modernizing Neuro-Oncology: The Impact of Imaging, Liquid Biopsies, and AI on Diagnosis and Treatment" in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
Brain cancer remains one of the most formidable challenges in modern…
Dr. Buddha Dawn (Medicine) has been awarded a four-year, $2,127,634 National Institutes of Health R01 grant to study the effectiveness of using pre-treated stem cells to repair damaged heart tissue after heart attacks. In addition to generating novel molecular insights into adult stem cell biology, the results of this study may potentially lead to…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) in collaboration with GBD 2021 Diarrhoeal Diseases Collaborators coauthored an article as a senior collaborator titled, “Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific burden of diarrhoeal diseases, their risk factors, and aetiologies, 1990-2021, for 204 countries and territories: a…
Asma Awan, Timothy Grigsby, Christopher Johansen (all Social and Behavioral Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching and Learning), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Explaining the Correlates of the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change in Visual (Structural) Colorectal Cancer…
Kirsten Calvin-Dunn (Neuroscience IDP), Amanda Leisgang-Osse (Brain Health), Jeff Kinney (Brain Health), and James Hyman (Psychology) published "Electrophysiological insights into Alzheimer's disease: A review of human and animal studies" in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. This comprehensive review article links together work from animal…
Dr. Jeffrey L. Cummings (Brain Health) is the lead author of recently published article titled, "evoke and evoke+: design of two large-scale, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 studies evaluating efficacy, safety, and tolerability of semaglutide in early-stage symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease." This article is a description of two large…
Dr. Jaineet Chhabra's (Medicine) research presentation titled, "Vascular sports medicine: An emerging niche that may lend to practice innovations," was accepted for the 9th Annual Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine for the Clinician 2025, which will be held March 7-9, 2025, at the Hilton Orlando Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Florida.
Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article, “Community-Based Participatory Process Evaluation Based on the Reach, Quality Control, Fidelity, Satisfaction, and Management (RQFSM) Model in Nevada: A Study Protocol,” in the BioSocial Health Journal. The article…
Kenneth Izuora (Medicine) was elected to serve as the secretary of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) effective Jan. 1, 2025. AACE is the leading professional organization for physicians and other healthcare professionals who provide clinical endocrinology care.
Gregory Brown, Kavita Batra, Emily Dorin, Andrew Han, Arianna Palermini, Robert Sottile, and Sherine Khanbijian (all Medicine) published a study, “Six-Month Follow-Up Comparing AIT and EFT in the Reduction of Negative Emotions Associated with a Past Memory,” in Psychology. This study compared the long-term efficacy of Advanced Integrative Therapy…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 Autism Spectrum Collaborators published a pivotal study titled, "The Global Epidemiology and Health Burden of Autism Spectrum: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021," in The Lancet Psychiatry. The study highlights the high prevalence and significant non-fatal…