Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Acute Care Surgery Fellows Alex Chen, Alex Rowan, Chris Demme and Chris Gonzalez (all Medicine) successfully passed the American Board of Surgery's Surgical Critical Care Certifying Exam to become board-certified in critical care.
Angela Herrera, Rubaab Wahid, Jasmin Kumar, and Sunny Zhang, along with Amy Stone (all Medicine) received the Louise E. Arnold Excellence in Research or Innovation Poster Session Award with a score of 86/90 for their poster titled "How Group Closeness Shapes the Relationship Between Personality and Engagement in Medical School Learning Communities…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) coauthored an article in association with the Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk 2023 Collaborators titled, “Global, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors in 204 Countries and Territories, 1990-2023” in…
Dr. Allison McNickle (Medicine) participated in the "Hot Topics in Pediatric Trauma: Best Practices and Review of the Literature" Panel at the 2025 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons in Chicago. Her segment, Thinking BIG — Putting Pediatric Brain Injury Guidelines into Practice, reviewed management strategies for mild…
Henry Krasner and co-authors, Dr. Sukanta Maitra (Orthopedic Surgery) and Dr. Allison McNickle (Trauma Surgery) published the article, "A comprehensive analysis of traumatic atlanto-occipital and atlanto-axial dislocations: A case series from a level one trauma center," in Trauma Case Reports. This series reviewed the prehospital care, concurrent…
Salman Mohammed, Justin Bauzon, Kavita Batra, and Aditi Singh (all Medicine), along with other medical professionals, published a study titled, “Bradycardia Associated with Remdesivir Treatment in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis,” in the journal Medicine. This study examines the potential cardiac side…
Joshua Khorsandi, Liahm Blank, Kaloyan Momchilov, Michael Dagovetz, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) published a study "From Ocean to Table: How Public Awareness Shapes the Fight Against Microplastic Pollution" in the journal Urban Science. Initiated and driven by medical students, the study synthesizes global public perceptions of microplastic…
Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health); Ashish Kumar Biswas (Epidemiology and Biostatistics); Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, "Evidence-based clinical effectiveness of Kundalini Yoga: Systematic review of RCTs across multiple health conditions" in the journal, Alternative…
Larissa McNeil (Medicine) presented a poster entitled "A Retrospective Evaluation of Psychiatric Recommendations Using the Injured Trauma Survivor Screen" at the American College of Surgeons 2025 Clinical Congress, on behalf of colleagues at UNLV and University Medical Center -- Jayme Ching, Yvonne Ramos and Allison McNickle (all Medicine). …
Manoj Sharma (Public Health; Internal Medicine) has once again been ranked since its inception in the top one percent of global scientists in the list generated by Elsevier and Stanford for ranking global scientists. He improved his rank from last year in public health, as being 298th in the single year and 503rd in his career, from a total of 75,…
Baylor Akhavan, Abu-Bakr Ahmed, Wilson To, Samir Alkhouri, Kavita Batra (all Medicine), published a study, "From forest to frontline: A comprehensive review of Mpox's global leap and viral evolution (2022–2024)," in the journal One Health. The study highlights how Mpox’s (MPXV) global trajectory now includes sustained transmission of both…
The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Marketing & Communications Department is proud to announce it has won a Health + Wellness Design Award™ from GDUSA for its 2025 Summer Magazine. Only the top 10% of over 2,500 entries received this award this year. This is the second graphic design award for the 2025 Summer Magazine.
GDUSA,…