Micah Char, with coauthors Brady Williams, Bella Chung, Baylor Akhavan-Mora, and Jennifer Panczyszyn (all Medicine students) helped advance state public health advocacy at the 2025 Nevada State Medical Association (NSMA) Annual House of Delegates with the adoption of Resolution 4, Oppose the Reintroduction of Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada…

Micah Char (Medicine student) helped advance state public health advocacy at the 2025 Nevada State Medical Association (NSMA) Annual House of Delegates with the adoption of Resolution 10, Prohibit Speed Enhancements on E-Bikes and E-Scooters. He authored the resolution, which highlights the sharp rise in micromobility-related injuries and…

UNLV School of Medicine students helped advance state policy at the 2025 Nevada State Medical Association (NSMA) Annual House of Delegates with the adoption of Resolution E23, Address Public Health Risks of Online Sports Betting. The resolution was led by Ryan Jannoud, with coauthors Eileen Enriquez and Gwen Metcalf (all Medicine). The resolution…

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Couple and Family Therapy Program is representing UNLV worldwide. Drs. Sara Jordan and Vaida Kazlauskaite, along with several students from the program, presented at the 2026 Oslo Communication in Healthcare Education and Research (OCHER) Conference in Oslo, Norway.   Their presentations included…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published the article, “Global, regional, and national burden of chronic respiratory diseases and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, 1990–2023: A Global Burden of Disease study,” as a senior collaborator in the journal, Nature Medicine (Impact factor 50.0). The study found that globally…

First-year medical student Hirsh Makhija (Medicine) is lead author of a study that shows pharmacists in United States face a significantly higher risk of suicide compared to the general population. The study, published in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, showed that pharmacists overall had a 21% increased risk during the 2011 to…

Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health), Ashis Kumar Biswas (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Norovirus: Emerging challenges and clinical conundrums,” in the journal Advances in Medicine, Psychology and Public Health. The manuscript underscores…

Kenneth Izuora (Medicine) was elected to serve as the Treasurer of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) effective Jan. 1, 2026. AACE is the leading professional organization for physicians and other healthcare professionals who provide clinical…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) has once again been recognized as a Top Scholar by ScholarGPS, an honor awarded to researchers whose work ranks among the most influential worldwide based on scholarly productivity, citation impact, and research quality. This recognition reflects her lifetime impact in COVID-19 research. Additionally, based on her…

Magnus Chun, Rakhi Patel; Zan Ferrin,  Sneh Sonaiya, Sneh, Tahne Vongsavath, Tahne, Jiayi Ge, Kavita Batra, Roberto Sagaribay, Yassin Naga, Preet Patel, Jose Aponte-Pieras (all Medicine) published an abstract, "Too Much, Too Soon? Rethinking Fluid Resuscitation in Acute Pancreatitis: A Retrospective Cohort Study," in the American Journal…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with Jagdish Khubchandani (New Mexico State University) and Andrew Yockey (University of Mississippi), co-authored the editorial “Social and Political Activism in Scientific Medical Journals: Belief-Based Evidence or Evidence-Based Beliefs?” in the Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health. The editorial…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Ravi Batra (Public Health) along with the Global Burden of Disease 2023 Lower Respiratory Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborators, published “Global Burden of Lower Respiratory Infections and Aetiologies, 1990–2023” in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. This global analysis found that lower respiratory…