Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Dr. Kate Martin (Medicine), along with experts across the country, helped shape The Disability Policy Toolkit, which was presented in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education. The toolkit introduces a practical, evidence-informed resource designed to help GME programs create transparent and functional disability policies that genuinely…
BeHERE NV, the Behavioral Health Education, Retention, and Expansion Network of Nevada, was included in a brief from the National Academy for State Health Policy, alongside many of their peers in other states.
Cynthia Sopko (Brain Health) has been elected to the Statistics and Data Science and Aging Group of the American Statistical Association (ASA), where she will serve as the Membership & Engagement Officer.
This achievement reflects Sopko's dedication to advancing statistical practice, fostering community engagement, and supporting innovative…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Predictability of perceptual factors of the intention-behaviour gap among young adults: A protocol for an explanatory mixed-methods study,” in the journal BMJ Open (Impact Factor 2.3) in collaboration with authors from Tabriz University of Medical…
Four UNLV students in the Class of 2028 — Liahm Blank, Kaloyan Momchilov, Joshua Khorsandi, and Nicole Kang (all Medicine) — published new research in the Nevada Journal of Public Health. Their work, titled “Nevada as a Microcosm for Poor Health Outcomes Resulting from Food Insecurity,” examines how local food shortages translate into…
Alice Weber (Medicine) gave a one-hour interdisciplinary educational seminar about transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and speech motor learning in Washington D.C. at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) convention in collaboration with Phil Weir-Mayta, chair of the Speech Pathology department at Nevada State…
Gabriela Buccini, Manoj Sharma, Timothy J. Grigsby, master's student Ambree Schoetker, master's student Smriti Neupane (all Public Health); Dodds Simangan, Jyoti Desai (both Medicine); Ana Poblacion (Children's HealthWatch), and NIH colleagues Alison Brown and Juanita Chinn published, "Food insecurity questionnaire on knowledge,…
Artificial intelligence is reshaping modern anesthesia, and two UNLV fourth-year medical students are helping define that future. Rakshita Giri and Shaik Huma Firdhos (both Medicine) from the Class of 2026 published “Artificial Intelligence in Anesthesia: Enhancing Precision, Safety, and Global Access Through Data-Driven Systems” in the…
Fourth-year medical students from the Class of 2026 — Philip John Borsellino, Savannah Schauer, Axel Rivas, and Karl Aharonian published, "Clinical Ophthalmology: Filling in the Blind Spot: Integrating Charles Bonnet Syndrome Screening in Ophthalmology." Thomas A. Vida (Medicine) served as the faculty mentor and advisor while the students drove…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) delivered a keynote address at the International Conference on Healthcare Innovations in Software, Engineering & Technology (HISET-2025) held in Karad, Maharashtra, India. The title of his presentation was "Advent of the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change in…
Four members of the Department of Internal Medicine were honored at the 2025 Nevada Chapter of the American College of Physicians Annual Meeting.
Dr. Amber Champion was awarded the Woman Physician of the Year Award. She was recognized for her distinguished career in areas of exceptional patient care and medical education. Champion has been a…
Dr. Alex Rowan (Medicine) presented a poster entitled "Institution of a Rib Fracture Guideline at a Level 1 Trauma Center" at the 2025 Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) Annual Conference in Chicago on behalf of co-authors Dr. Kevin Petersen, Dr. Christopher Gonzalez, Dr. Odessa Pulido, Dr. Allison McNickle and Dr. Deborah Kuhls (all…