Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Christopher Cain (Hospitality) has been approved to serve on UNLV’s Intercollegiate Athletics Council (IAC). The IAC advises and oversees the university’s intercollegiate athletics program, including policy, institutional control, academic integrity, compliance, and student-athlete welfare. He joins other newly appointed members, Joe Ervin (…
Asma Awan and Christina Demopoulos (Dental) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) published a book chapter titled, “Co-creation of pedagogical models in higher education: Gaps and innovations in combined models of behavioral and educational theories" in the book Research in Educational Sciences-II. The chapter…
The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Marketing and Communications Department is proud to announce they have won another Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) Health+Wellness Design Awards for 2026.
GDUSA, greatly respected in the world of graphic design, has been a source of news and information for designers and the broader creative…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored and published a study "Burden of non-communicable diseases and their attributable risk factors in Africa from1990 to 2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023," in the Lancet Global Health journal. This study found that Africa's progress lags behind global improvements, with NCDs…
Min Ju Kang, Nathaniel LaBarre, Michael Karo, and Rachel Soong (all Medicine), under the mentorship of Thomas Vida, Ph.D. (Medicine), co-authored the study, “Illuminating Risk: An Ecological Analysis of Artificial Light at Night and Childhood Myopia Using State-Level US Data,” published in Risk Management and Healthcare Policy. The study used…
Assistant professor Bonhak Koo (Hospitality) and his coauthors received the Best Paper Award at the GLOTECH 2026 Conference for their paper, “Hospitality’s Empathic Friend: How an Emotional Support AI Chatbot Can Be Used for Early Detection and Intervention for Employees’ Psychological Distress.”
This interdisciplinary research was conducted in…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored and published a study "State-level burden of chronic respiratory diseases in the USA, 1990–2023, with forecasts to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023" in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine. Authors emphasized that State-level policy environments, including fiscal and preventive…
Kavita Batra, Aditi Singh, Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (all Medicine), along with their collaborators from the University of California, San Francisco and Creighton University School of Medicine, published "Characteristics and Success of Internal Medicine Applicants to Subspecialty Fellowships" in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Drawing on…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored a study, "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 first dedicated analysis of second-hand smoke as a…
Five years of evidence deliver a reassuring message: GLP-1 medicines are not linked to major psychiatric harm. Research co-authored by Kavita Batra (Medicine), Jagdish Khubchandani from New Mexico State University, and colleagues found no increased risk of suicidal thoughts, depression, or other serious psychiatric outcomes in the general treated…
Grants and Research Director Noehealani Antolin (Medicine) served as an invited panelist at the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) Annual Conference, held August 29–September 2, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Antolin was one of five panelists in the session "Riding Safe: Electric Bikes, Scooters and the Road Ahead," which examined how…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Dr. Jagdish Khubchandani of New Mexico State University were featured in Medical Xpress for their research on the psychiatric safety of GLP-1 receptor agonists. Their study found no evidence of increased serious psychiatric harm but stressed individualized screening and closer monitoring of patients with existing mental…