Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine), dean of the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, was recently approved as an incoming member of the 2024-2025 COD Administrative Board for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Kahn's term will formally begin in November.   

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) and Asma Awan (Social and Behavioral Health) have been awarded a grant to develop a training program for reducing implicit bias among emergency room staff at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System based on the multi-theory model (MTM) of health behavior change. The intervention will help…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Mental health promotion by medical students: An untapped potential” for UJMS: UCMS Journal of Medical Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal published by his alma mater, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India. The article discusses the role…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), as a member of the GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators published a meta-analysis "Global estimates on the number of people blind or visually impaired by cataract: a meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020" in the journal Eye. This study found that the number of people blind and with moderate to severe…

Rowena Saba (Medicine) and Rocky Rockstraw (Nursing) recently published a book chapter titled, "Simulation Operations," in the book Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Nursing published by Springer. Saba's and Rockstraw's chapter delves on the operational aspects of health care simulation, such as simulation center management, equipment and…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with the Fertility and Forecasting Global Collaborators recently published a study in the Lancet journal, which found that over 95% of countries will have fertility rates below what is needed to sustain their population size by 2100. This study involved a comprehensive demographic assessments of key fertility…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) was a coauthor among the GBD 2021 Demographics Collaborators for the article titled, “Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: A…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) has been recently invited to serve the editorial board of journal Scientific Reports. This journal  is the 5th most-cited journal in the world, with more than 738,000 citations in 2022. Batra holds prestigious positions in several peer-reviewed journals, including Annals of Epidemiology, Psychiatric Case Reports,…

Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) was a coauthor among Global Nervous System Collaborators who published a study, "Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021," in The Lancet Neurology (Impact factor 48.0…

Kenny Do (UNLV Medical Student), Eric Kawana (UNLV Medical Student), Vladislav Zhitny (NYU Anesthesiology Resident/UNLV Medicine Alumni) published a systematic review that discusses the use of radiofrequency ablation in treating glossopharyngeal neuralgia in the journal Pain Physician. The publication examines the efficacy, safety, and adverse…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with Global Demographic Collaborators published a study "Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) along with the Global Nervous System Collaborators published a study "Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021" in the Lancet Neurology.  This study estimated nervous system health loss caused by 37…