Anne Weisman (Medicine) published, "Psychedelic Therapy: A Primer for Primary Care Clinicians-5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyltryptamine," in the American Journal of Therapeutics, along with co-authors Burton Tabaac at UNR, Kenneth Shinozuka at Stanford, Shiven Chaudhry, and Mathieu Seynaeve.  

Daphne Lu (Medicine) was awarded the UNLV Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. She will receive the award at the 2026 Academic Achievement Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, at 3 p.m. at the UNLV Foundation/Blasco Wing. 

Gregory P. Brown, Kavita Batra, Anne Weisman, Arianna Palermini, Nezia Rahman, Robert Sottile, Sherine Khanbijan, Noa Klausner, Elizabeth Park, Andrew Wilson, Tiffany Chen, Al Gourner, Paige Hewitt, Soon Cho (all Medicine), along with Jo Woon Chong (SungKyunKwan University, South Korea), presented a poster titled, “AIT, EFT, & EMDR: A QEEG RCT…

Dr. Vishisht Mehta (Medicine) and colleagues published their paper, "Employment of artificial intelligence for early lung cancer diagnosis: a retrospective cohort study," in BMJ Open Respiratory Research. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of combined artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools for increasing the follow-up rate of…

Tooba Laaeq, Roberto Sagaribay, Vidhani Goel, Aditi Singh, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine), along with collaborators from Dow University of Health Sciences, Pakistan, and Mass General Brigham, Boston have published a study titled “Efficacy and Safety of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors in Patients With Refractory Cirrhotic Ascites and…

Manoj Sharma, Asma Awan, Vikash Patel, Aastha Poudel (all Social & Behavioral Health), Badrunisa Hanif, Tooba Laeeq, and Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (all Medicine) authored an article titled “A theory-based approach to predict stress relaxation behavior among South Asian Americans: A cross-sectional study” in the International Journal of…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), in collaboration with Kyra Morgan (the lead author), Stephanie Woodard, Erika Ryst, Paul Devereux, and Wei Yang, recently published their study, “Bridging the Data Divide in Nevada: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study of Birth Certificate and Medicaid Billing Discrepancies in Gestational Substance Exposure,” in the journal…

Whitney Elks, Declan Feery, Celica Cosme, Kavita Batra, Lance Horner, Charles St. Hill, and Ovunc Bardakcioglu (all Medicine) published a study, “Comparison of Surgical Treatment Patterns and Temporal Trends for Stage I–III Invasive Rectal Adenocarcinoma Among Regions in the United States,” in Heliyon. Using National Cancer Database data (2004–…

Brenna Renn and Katie Singsank (Psychology), Ishrat Zaman (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Kimberly Cobos and Samantha John (Brain Health) recently published an article titled, "Differential item functioning of the Geriatric Depression Scale-short form in the NACC dataset," in Alzheimer's & Dementia, the journal of the Alzheimer's…

Dr. Vishisht Mehta (Medicine) and his colleague Dr. Sameer K Avasarala published their original research titled, "Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence Among Pulmonologists," in the European Respiratory Journal Open Research. This paper reflects the results of their survey of pulmonologists assessing their familiarity, comfort and usage of…

Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine), chief of hematology and former dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, had his essay, "When a Medical School Dean Resigns," published in Academic Medicine, a journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). In the essay, Kahn writes that the average U.S. medical school dean tenure is only 4.3…

Baylor Akhavan and Wolfram Samlowski (both Medicine) have recently published a study titled, "A combination of low TMB and PD-L1 expression predict poor progression-free survival of metastatic melanoma patients treated with first-line ipilimumab plus nivolumab," in Frontiers in Immunology. The study showed that tumor mutational burden (…