UNLV School of Medicine students helped advance national policy at the 2025 American Medical Association (AMA) Annual House of Delegates with the adoption of policy H-140.817, Deception as a Threat to Physician Ethics. The resolution was led by Nataliyah Tahir, with coauthors Linsey Golding and Mira Dani (all Medicine). The policy states that the…

UNLV School of Medicine students contributed to the adoption of national policy at the 2025 American Medical Association (AMA) Annual House of Delegates with the adoption of resolution D-295.298, Addressing Professionalism Standards in Medical Training. The resolution was led by Eduardo Soto, with coauthors Eileen Enriquez, Linsey Golding, Mira…

UNLV School of Medicine students helped advance national policy at the 2025 American Medical Association (AMA) Annual House of Delegates with the adoption of policy H-150.913, Allergen Labeling for Spices and Herbs. The resolution was led by Eileen Enriquez, with coauthors Sierra McCarty and Eduardo Soto (all Medicine). The policy states that the…

UNLV School of Medicine students helped advance national public health policy at the 2025 American Medical Association (AMA) Annual House of Delegates, where policy H-95.895, Opposing the Use of Harm Reduction Items as Evidence of Exchanging Sex for Money, was formally adopted. Led by Mira Dani, with co-authors Nataliyah Tahir and Linsey Golding (…

Dr. Kate Martin (Medicine), along with experts across the country, helped shape The Disability Policy Toolkit, which was presented in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education. The toolkit introduces a practical, evidence-informed resource designed to help GME programs create transparent and functional disability policies that genuinely…

BeHERE NV, the Behavioral Health Education, Retention, and Expansion Network of Nevada, was included in a brief from the National Academy for State Health Policy, alongside many of their peers in other states.

Cynthia Sopko (Brain Health) has been elected to the Statistics and Data Science and Aging Group of the American Statistical Association (ASA), where she will serve as the Membership & Engagement Officer. This achievement reflects Sopko's dedication to advancing statistical practice, fostering community engagement, and supporting innovative…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “Predictability of perceptual factors of the intention-behaviour gap among young adults: A protocol for an explanatory mixed-methods study,” in the journal BMJ Open (Impact Factor 2.3) in collaboration with authors from Tabriz University of Medical…

Four UNLV students in the Class of 2028 — Liahm Blank, Kaloyan Momchilov, Joshua Khorsandi, and Nicole Kang (all Medicine) — published new research in the Nevada Journal of Public Health. Their work, titled “Nevada as a Microcosm for Poor Health Outcomes Resulting from Food Insecurity,” examines how local food shortages translate into…

Alice Weber (Medicine) gave a one-hour interdisciplinary educational seminar about transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and speech motor learning in Washington D.C. at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) convention in collaboration with Phil Weir-Mayta, chair of the Speech Pathology department at Nevada State…

Gabriela Buccini, Manoj Sharma, Timothy J. Grigsby, master's student Ambree Schoetker, master's student Smriti Neupane (all Public Health); Dodds Simangan, Jyoti Desai (both Medicine); Ana Poblacion (Children's HealthWatch), and NIH colleagues Alison Brown and Juanita Chinn published, "Food insecurity questionnaire on knowledge,…

Artificial intelligence is reshaping modern anesthesia, and two UNLV fourth-year medical students are helping define that future. Rakshita Giri and Shaik Huma Firdhos (both Medicine) from the Class of 2026 published “Artificial Intelligence in Anesthesia: Enhancing Precision, Safety, and Global Access Through Data-Driven Systems” in the…