Gregory Schreck (Medicine) recently presented at the 2022 Association of American Medical Colleges Western Group on Educational Affairs regional meeting. His presentation, “A Novel Framework for Teaching Skills Training Through Weekly Learning Issues,” won the Medical Education Scholarship, Research and Evaluation (MESRE) Section Award of…

Johan Bester (Medicine) recently presented at the 2022 Association of American Medical Colleges Western Group on Educational Affairs regional meeting. His presentation, “How to Make Your Students Love Epidemiology,” won the Medical Education Scholarship, Research and Evaluation (MESRE) Section Award of Excellence for best poster in the category of…

Drs. KaChon Lei, Toyokazu Endo, and Chowdhury Ahsan (all Medicine) published the article "Cardiac Tumor In The Left Ventricular Outflow Tract: Atypical Presentation of Calcified Amorphous Tumor" in the Journal of Surgical Case Reports. Calcified amorphous tumor (CAT) of the heart is a rare non-neoplastic tumor. The authors report a 71-year-old…

Drs. Michelle Skuba Gray, Ian Isby, and Jamie Baydoun (all Medicine) recently delivered an oral presentation, ‘"Low Fidelity Pork Rib Ultrasound-Guided Serratus Anterior Nerve Block Simulation" at the annual Western Regional Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) conference held at Stanford University. This low-cost animal…

Valarie Burke (Graduate College) and Annie Weisman (Medicine) recently presented at the 2022 NASPA Annual Conference.   In the interactive session — titled Best Practices in Crisis/Suicide Prevention: Perspectives from Graduate, Law, Medical, and Post-Graduate Programs — presenters introduced Early Alert, a theoretically grounded,…

Dr. Syed F. Saquib, Dr. Deborah A. Kuhls, and Samantha Slinkard-Barnum (all Medicine) published an article, "Pediatric Burn Care: How Burn Camps Survived and Thrived During the Coronavirus Pandemic," in Journal of Burn Care & Research.    

Graham McGinnis (Kinesiology and Nutrition Science) was awarded a Developmental Research Project Grant from the Nevada INBRE. This two-year grant will investigate the circadian regulation of exercise induced cardiovascular benefits including training adaptations and protection against cardiovascular disease (i.e. heart attack). Richard Tillett of…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) have coauthored an article, “Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout Syndrome among Italian Psychologists Following the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-sectional Study” in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences in collaboration with researchers from Italy and…

Drs. Kenneth Izuora and Matthew Ng (both Medicine) published a commentary looking at hearing loss among individuals with diabetes and the impact of gender differences on the risk of developing hearing loss among this population.Izuora is with the department of internal medicine, while Ng is with the department of otolaryngology.

Lindsay Buczek, Laura K. Gryder, Kavita Batra, Allison G. McNickle, Douglas R. Fraser, Deborah A. Kuhls, and Paul J. Chestovich (all Medicine), along with Samantha Slinkard-Barnum (University of South Carolina) and Cassandra Trummel (Southwest Career and Technical Academy) published a study, " Evaluating Long-Term Outcomes of a High…

Dr. Evelyn Montalvo Stanton (Medicine) received the Health Care Headliners Honoree Award from Vegas, Inc. for Southern Nevada earlier this month. She chairs the pediatric department.

Kavita Batra (Medicine) published a book chapter, "Deaths of Despair among College Students amidst COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call for Action." As highlighted in this review chapter, early identification of at-risk students, promoting parental education to develop open communications with their young children, and building mental health…