Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Buddha Dawn (Medicine) co-authored an article titled, “Human Wharton’s jelly-derived mesenchymal stem cells prevent acetaminophen-induced liver injury in a mouse model unlike human dermal fibroblasts,” in the Archives of Toxicology. Intravenous injection of clinical grade human WJMSCs after acetaminophen overdose alleviated hepatotoxicity by…
Manoj Sharma, Ravi Batra (Social and Behavioral Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine), Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education), Chia-Laing Dai (Teaching and Learning), and David Cappelli (Dental Medicine) have published a manuscript titled, “Predicting Flossing through the Application of the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) of Health Behavior Change among…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) was invited to serve as an editorial board member to the journal Annals of Epidemiology. The Annals of Epidemiology is a peer-reviewed, international journal sponsored by the American College of Epidemiology. This journal emphasizes the application of epidemiologic methods to issues that affect the distribution…
Dr. Marc J. Kahn, MD, MBA, the dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine and vice president for Health Affairs, recently published an editorial in the Las Vegas Review Journal with Jesus Jara, the superintendent of the Clark County School District, articulating the important linkage between education and health.
Kavita Batra (Medicine) was recently invited to serve as an editorial board member with the journal Psychiatry Research Case Reports. The mission of this journal is to disseminate cutting edge knowledge in order to improve patient care and advance the understanding of mental illness. Batra has published several peer-reviewed articles related…
Jennifer Pharr and Emylia Terry (both Public Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) presented "Protective and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women in the United States" at the American Public Health Association Conferences in Boston.
Dr. Deborah A. Kuhls (Medicine), professor of surgery, received the "Emergency Medicine Implementer of the Year" Traffic Safety Award during the 2022 Nevada Traffic Safety Summit, which was held on Oct. 19-20 in Carson City, Nevada.
Dr. Deborah Kuhls (Medicine), professor of surgery presented, "Women in Trauma Surgery," at the 70th Annual Detroit Trauma Symposium on Nov. 3, 2022.
Mark Hsu, Kyaw Min Tun, George Chen, Skylar Davidson, Lina Chan, Christy Lee Carpenter Diuguid, Privanthi Jinadasa, Jose Aponte-Pieras, Joseph Fayad and Bhavana Bhaya (all Medicine), presented, "Metastatic Anorectal Melanoma as a Rare Cause of Hematochezia: A Case Report," at the American College of Gastroenterology conference.
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Mark Hsu, Katrina Naik, Amith Subhash, Jose Aponte-Pieras, Annie Hong, Yousif Elmofti, Muhammad Talha Farooqi, and Shahid Wahid (all Medicine) presented, "Pancreatic Rosai-Dorfman Disease Diagnosed Without Surgery," at the American College of Gastroenterology conference. All are a part of the department of internal medicine in the Kirk…
Drs. Awad Javaid and Chowdhury Ahsan (both Medicine) recently co-authored a manuscript, "Anterior-Posterior versus anterior-lateral electrodes position for electrical cardioversion of atrial fibrillation: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials," in International Journal of Cardiology Heart and Vasculature. The analysis showed no…
Dr. Jo-Lawrence Martinez Bigcas (Medicine), assistant professor and residency program director of the department of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, recently authored "Indocyanine Green Angiography as the Principal Design and Perfusion Assessment Tool for the Supraclavicular Artery…