Medical resident Dr. Jaineet Chhabra (Family and Community Medicine) was featured in the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine's MarshallMedicine magazine as part of the alumni spotlight. This article highlights his journey into sports medicine, and the work he has been fortunate to pursue during residency at the…

Competing against teams from organizations across the Las Vegas Valley, UNLV’s Trivia Team earned a third-place medal as part of the 2026 City of Las Vegas Corporate Challenge on March 14. Team members included co-captain Amy Stone (Medicine), GK Nwosu (Academic Effectiveness), Katherine Manifold (Libraries), Jeremy Bart-Plange (Facilities), Beth…

Dr. Lina Nih (Medicine) was awarded the Peter G. Kaufman Award for Translational Research at the 2026 UNLV Health Sciences Research Symposium.

The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents officially gave their approval of Dr. Samantha John (Brain Health) receiving the Jason Geddes Rising Researcher award in their last meeting. This is a prestigious award at UNLV and really highlights John's scientific contributions as well as the efforts to build and grow the outreach…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), together with the 2023 Breast Cancer Collaborators, contributed to the landmark study “Global, regional, and national burden of breast cancer among females, 1990–2023, with forecasts to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023,” published in The Lancet Oncology and funded by the Gates…

Jie Ren, Kavita Batra, San Tran, Mutsumi Kioka (all Medicine), along with student researchers, have published their study, “Critical care utilization associated with an electronic dance music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada: A retrospective cohort study of the Electric Daisy Carnival,” in Preventive Medicine Reports. This study examines patterns of…

Christopher J. Fang, Cameron Harris, Matthew Michelberger, Alex Woster, Hilary Koech, Karen Nelson (all Medicine) won “Top Paper Award” at the National American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) 2026 annual meeting. Selected out of 7,000+ abstracts 

The Kirk Kerkorian Medical Education Building has earned a LEED Platinum certification for operations and maintenance, a rare and distinguished accomplishment that places the school among a select group recognized for exceptional operational standards. LEED-certified buildings reduce costs, enhance efficiency, cut carbon emissions and foster…

Mina Attin (Nursing), Bryer Shareef (Computer Science), Xan Goodman (University Libraries), and Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with their student researchers, have published “Predicting In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Using Machine Learning Models: A Scoping Review” in Artificial Intelligence in Emergency Medicine. The study highlights the growing…

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…