Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Ph.D. student Ravi Batra (Public Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases titled, "Global, regional, and national burden of tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis by HIV status, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023."
The study reports that…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled “Perceived barriers for physical activity in overweight and obese youth: A scoping review” published in the journal Health Science Reports (Impact factor 2.9) with coauthors from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. The study found that environmental and…
Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) published an original research article with Kenneth Izuora (Medicine) and colleagues on the role of healthy dietary patterns in inflammatory biomarkers that predict cardiovascular disease in adults with and without type 1 diabetes using data from the NIH funded Coronary Artery…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) conducted a featured virtual webinar titled "Scientific Kundalini Energy Yoga (SKEY): The Architecture of Integration: Bridging Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science" for the "Break ke Baad" group based in Livermore, California. The webinar covered a description of yoga from a scientific…
Irma Corral and Jennifer Young (Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Office of Community Affairs) have received notification of funding from the Nevada Rural Health Transformation Workforce Recruitment and Rural Access Program (WRRAP). Their project, the Healthcare Exposure Rural Outreach (HERO) program, will serve as a workforce…
The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV has earned LEED Platinum Certification for operations and maintenance of its Medical Education Building, a distinction that places the school among a select group of facilities recognized for exceptional operational and sustainability standards.
The U.S. Green Building Council officially presented the…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled, “TyG Index and Frailty as Composite Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Risk and Mortality Across CKM Stages 0–3” in the journal Metabolites (Impact factor 4.5) in collaboration with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University and Qatar University. The study…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) has been selected as a 2026 Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI) Scholar, a highly competitive national program sponsored by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Selected based on her accomplishments, commitment to health disparities…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator, and Sharmistha Roy (Social and Behavioral Health), as a collaborator, with GBD 2023 US Substance Use Disorders Collaborators, coauthored the article titled, “National- and state-level burdens of substance use disorders in the USA, 1990-2023, with forecasts up…
Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with her international research collaborators, published a study titled “Effects of Ergonomic Chairs on Workplace Musculoskeletal Health: A Systematic Review” in Physical Treatments. The review examined how ergonomic chair features affect musculoskeletal health among seated workers and found that ergonomic…
Larissa McNeil and Allison McNickle (Surgery) along with Jayme Ching and Yvonne Ramos (collaborators from University Medical Center) published a study "A Retrospective Evaluation of Psychiatric Recommendations Using the Injured Trauma Survivor Screen" in The American Surgeon. This study evaluated mental health screening practices in trauma…
A collaborative research team from the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and New Mexico State University (NMSU) has received extensive national and international media attention for its recent study examining the impact of Daylight Saving Time (DST) on mental health and neuropsychological outcomes. The study "When the Clock Shifts: A…