Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) conducted a featured virtual webinar titled "Introspective Meditation on Avoiding Guilt and Fostering Self-Forgiveness & Forgiveness for Others" for the "Break ke Baad" group based in Livermore, California. The webinar covered the scientific basis of guilt, including the…

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with the GBD 2023 Asia Life Expectancy Collaborators, coauthored “Mapping drivers of life expectancy change in Asia from 1990 to 2023” in Nature (Impact factor 56.1). The study was unique because most previous research on the longitudinal trends in life…

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with the GBD 2023 Road Injuries Collaborators, coauthored “Global, regional, and national burden of road injuries 1990-2023: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023” in The Lancet. Public Health (Impact factor: 26.5). The study…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), a senior collaborator with the GBD 2023 Asia Life Expectancy Collaborators, co-authored the study, "Mapping Drivers of Life Expectancy Change in Asia from 1990 to 2023," published in Nature. The study found that life expectancy increased across all 34 Asian countries and territories between 1990 and 2023, driven by…

Refat R. Srejon (Public Health), Kavita Batra (Medicine), and Jagdish Khubchandani from New Mexico State University, published a study "COVID-19 Vaccination Refusal and Non-Uptake Among People Living with HIV in the United States" in the Journal of Community Health. The study highlights the need for targeted interventions that address…

A review article co-authored by Liahm Blank, Joshua Khorsandi, Roberto Sagaribay, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine), together with Elizabeth England-Kennedy, Jagdish Khubchandani, and Karen Kopera-Frye of New Mexico State University and Srikanta Banerjee of Walden University, has been designated an Editor's Choice Article by Brain Sciences. This…

Gregory Brown, Anne Weisman, Kavita Batra (all Medicine) along with medical trainees (Santosha Veeramachaneni, Elizabeth Park, Jeffrey Martin, and Mark Ringor) published a study "The Efficacy of Hypnotherapy in Reducing Burnout and Related Psychopathologies: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" in the JMIR Research Protocols. …

Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Ravi Batra (Public Health), along with the GBD 2023 Road Injuries Collaborators, co-authored a study published in The Lancet Public Health titled, "Global, Regional, and National Burden of Road Injuries, 1990–2023: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023." The study reports that despite…

Ana Corral (Libraries, Medicine) recently served as an expert List Selector for the July 2026 Doody's Special Topics List, "Resident Preparation & Well-Being." As part of a three-member team, she researched and co-curated a collection of 47 essential books and resources that help health sciences librarians and medical institutions worldwide…

Asma Awan (Dental) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) presented a virtual talk titled, “Strengthening Local Public Health Workforce Capacity through Experiential Learning: Outcomes from an ARPA-Funded Workforce Pipeline Initiative” at the 2026 NACCHO360 Conference, held in Louisville, KY form July 13-17, 2026. The…

Deborah Kuhls, MD (Medicine) was awarded the Mitchell D. Forman, DO Award for Execmplary Dedication to the Medical Education of Future Nevada Physicians at the Clark County Medical Society 72nd Presidential Installation and Awards Ceremony held on June 20, 2026. 

Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine), professor and section chief of hematology, and his mentee from the University of California San Francisco recently published a chapter in the book, Blood Substitutes and Oxygen Biotherapeutics, published by Springer. Their chapter, titled, "The Erythrocruorins as Synthetic Blood Products: What Is New?," describes the…