Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Laura Crankshaw, Allison G. McNickle, Kavita Batra, Deborah A. Kuhls, Paul J. Chestovich, and Douglas R. Fraser (all Medicine) recently presented a paper titled "The volume of thoracic irrigation affects length of stay in patients with traumatic hemothorax" at the 80th Annual Meeting of the…
Lindsay Cranker, Kavita Batra, Allison G. McNickle, Douglas R. Fraser, Deborah A. Kuhls, and Paul J. Chestovich (all Medicine) recently presented a poster titled "Trauma volume increased in lower socioeconomic communities during the COVID-19 pandemic” at the 80th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma…
Dr. Awad Javaid (Medicine) recently wrote a manuscript as first author titled "Stress cardiomyopathy in hospitalized patients with cancer: machine learning analysis by primary malignancy type" which was published in ESC Heart Failure.
Demographics and outcomes of specific cancer types in hospitalized patients with stress cardiomyopathy were…
Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (Medicine) co-presented "Pay It Forward with the 4 Es - Effective, Efficient, External, Evaluative Letters for Academic Promotion" with colleagues across the country at the Program Directors in Internal Medicine 2021 Online Meeting last month.
This presentation was based on work with the Promotional Support for…
26 Faculty physicians from the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV were recently named “Top Docs” by Desert Companion Magazine. The physicians were chosen by their peers in an online nomination process. The UNLV honorees are: Dr. Ovunc Bardakcioglu – colon & rectal surgery, Dr. Mario Gaspar de Alba – developmental behavioral…
Dr. Joshua J. Goldman led a team including students Demitri V. Franzoni, Mariam Al-Hamad Daubs, Dr. Mitchell E. Lyons, as well as Dr. Harry H. Ching, and Dr. Jo-Lawrence Bigcas (all Medicine) in publishing a report entitled, "Submental Paradoxical Adipose Hyperplasia Following Cryolipolysis: A Report and Management Recommendations"…
Dr. Kevin Kuruvilla (Medicine) presented "Implementation of Brain Injury Guidelines for Isolated Traumatic Brain Injury in Adults Decreases Resource Use Without Adversely Impacting Outcomes" at the 80th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and Clinical Congress of Acute Care Surgery in Atlanta.
Jennifer R. Pharr (Public Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently published a study titled "Physical and Mental Disabilities among the Gender-Diverse Population Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ... A Propensity-Matched Analysis" in a Healthcare journal.
The findings of this study advocate for developing policies and…
Kavita Batra (Medicine) recently contributed to a workshop on research methodology in social sciences and humanities at the International Federation for Fitness, Health, and Physical Education and Iron Games.
The overarching goal of this workshop was to describe guidelines for designing and conducting interdisciplinary and evidence-based…
Manoj Sharma (Environmental & Occupational Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published an article entitled, “A theory-based analysis of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among African Americans in the United States: A recent evidence” in co-authorship with Ravi Batra (Coforge) in the journal Healthcare. The article lends support to…
Zahra Mojtahedi (Puiblic Health), a doctoral student, along with, Ji Won Yoo (Medicine), Karen Callahan (Public Health), Neeraj Bhandari and Jay Shen (both Healthcare Administration and Policy), master's of public health student Katayoon Ghodsi, and visiting scholar from China Donghui Lou recently published an article entiled "Inpatient…
Justin Bauzon, Caleb Murphy and Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (all Medicine) recently published "Using Macros in Microsoft Excel to Facilitate Cleaning of Research Data" in the Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives.
Retrospective chart review studies may be delayed by inability to export clean clinical data from an electronic…