Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Siddharth Raich, Asma Awan, Christopher Johansen, and Manoj Sharma (all Social and Behavioral Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) presented two papers at Nevada Public Health Association’s Annual Conference on September 13 and 14, 2022.
The papers were titled, “Disparities in cervical cancer screening programs among minority women in the United…
Dr. Oriaku Kas-Osoka (Adolescent Medicine) will be honored by HELP of Southern Nevada on Sept. 30, 2022, for the work she does for the Shannon West Homeless Youth Center. She is an associate professor of pediatrics.
Gregory Brown, M.D., (Psychiatry and Behavioral Health) was elevated to Fellow status at the American College of Psychiatrists' 2022 Annual Meeting, which was held in August.
Jocy-Anna Chevalier (Public Health), Chad Cross (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), Rebecca Scherr (Pediatrics), and Sheniz Moonie (Epidemiology & Biostatistics) published an article on "The Impact of COVID-19 on Pediatric Obesity in Southern Nevada" in the Journal of Childhood Obesity.
In March 2020, schools in Nevada were issued a lockdown…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) was recently invited to serve as a Topical Advisory Panel member with the Vaccines journal.
Glenn Barnes (Sports Medicine Center) has been certified by the Alliance for Physician Certification & Advancement in Musculoskeletal Sonography (RMSK). Certification requires submission of previously performed ultrasounds that are reviewed by experts, as well as passing a rigorous exam. Barnes is the only fellowship trained…
Kenneth Izuora and Amber Champion (both Internal Medicine) participated in a round table discussion with Senator Catherine Cortez Masto at the Silver Sky Assisted Living Facility in Las Vegas. The two physicians joined other medical professionals to provide input on how the Inflation Reduction Act might impact Medicare patients using insulin…
Ariyon Schreiber, Kim Inciong, Wilbur Ji, Justin Bauzon, Omar Al-Taweel, Keaton Nasser, Binna Chokshi, Jimmy Diep, Chowdhury Ahsan (all Internal Medicine), published "A Single-center Retrospective Study on the Incidence and Clinical Significance of the Electrocardiographic "Triangular QRS-ST-T Waveform" Pattern in Heart and Lung" in the Journal of…
Several colleagues from the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV published "Clinical Characteristics and Implications of Bradycardia in COVID‑19 Patients Treated with Remdesivir: A Single‑Center Retrospective Cohort Study" in the journal Clinical Drug Investigation. The results of the study highlight the need to evaluate the…
The UNLV Division of Acute Care Surgery worked with the UNLV Office of Traffic Safety to publish "Higher risk of auto versus pedestrian crashes in school-age children on school days" in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. The study evaluated children who were hit by cars in Las Vegas and found that the risk of crash…
Alexis Hilts and Ariyon Schreiber (both Medicine) published "A Clinical Case of COVID-19 Vaccine-Associated Guillain Barre Syndrome" in the American Journal of Case Reports.
Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) was the senior author for a chapter in the textbook, "Blood Substitutes and Oxygen Biotherapeutics," published by Springer Nature. His chapter was titled, "Platelet Substitutes."