Alice Weber (Medicine) completed advanced hands-on training in transcranial neuromodulation and neuromonitoring with Soterix Medical in New York City, gaining specialized methodological expertise applicable to ongoing neuroscience and medical research at UNLV. Modalities and systems included transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS…

Joshua Khorsandi, Liahm Blank, Spencer Thatcher, Abu-Bakr Ahmed, Kavita Batra, G. DeAndrea, and Aftab Merchant (Medicine) have published a study titled, “Hidden danger in everyday cooking: microplastic release from plastic cutting boards and impact on health and the environment,” in Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences. Their research…

Dr. Samantha John (Medicine), a neuropsychologist in the Brain Health Department, was recently featured on Channel 8 News Now. She appears in a segment highlighting disparities in dementia care among Latino communities in Southern Nevada. In the report by Ozzy Mora, John discusses the state’s rapidly rising rates of neurodegenerative disease and…

Brenna Chen, Paul P. Kim, Vidhani Goel, Alexander Rowan, Kevin Gladin, Lateef Omidiji Jr., Shane Jung, Kavita Batra, Rabia Nizamani, and Stephanie Martinez (all Medicine) published an abstract of their study, “Impact of Temperature on Burn Operating Room Demand at a Regional Burn Center,” in the Journal of Burn Care & Research. This work was…

Samuel A. Matthys, Alexander Rowan, Ryan Grinnell, Vidhani Goel, Brenna Chen, Lateef Omidiji Jr., Avni Joshi, Shane Jung, Stephanie Martinez, Kavita Batra, and Rabia Nizamani (all Medicine) published an abstract of their study, “Epidemiology and Outcomes of Pavement Burns Among Unhoused Patients,” in the Journal of Burn Care & Research. This…

Alexander Chen, Brenna Chen, Vidhani Goel, Alexander Rowan, Christopher Demme, Tiffany Yu, Paul P. Kim, Kendra Coleman, Kavita Batra, Stephanie Martinez, and Rabia Nizamani (all Medicine) published the abstract of their study, “Beyond the Surface: Clinical and Social Determinants of Pavement Burns,” in the Journal of Burn Care & Research. This…

Dr. Vishisht Mehta (Medicine) published an invited editorial in CHEST titled, "The Second Multicenter Intrapleural Sepsis Trial Dosing Regimen of Intrapleural Enzyme Therapy Remains the Benchmark in Parapneumonic Effusions and Empyema, Even Without Dwell Time." This editorial provided commentary on the underlying paper analyzing the effects of…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), whose primary research focuses on maternal and neonatal health, along with her GBD 2023 Maternal Mortality collaborators, co-authored a study in The Lancet: Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health titled, "Global, regional, and national levels and trends in maternal mortality, progress towards the Sustainable Development…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with the GBD 2021 AEMT collaborators, published "Global burden of adverse effects of medical treatment from 1990 to 2021: a Global Burden of Disease Study 2021" in the Korean Journal of Internal Medicine. Using GBD 2021 data from 204 countries, the study quantified the global burden of adverse effects of medical…

Kavita Batra (Medicine), along with Jagdish Khubchandani (New Mexico State University), Andrew Yockey (University of Mississippi), and Srikanta Banerjee (Walden University), co-authored an editorial in the Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and Public Health arguing that reporting study limitations is not just stylistic but an ethical responsibility,…

Kavita Batra, Aditi Singh, and Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj (all Medicine) along with their collaborators, including former medical residents and colleagues from the University of California, San Francisco, presented their work as a poster and published the abstract in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) on "Characteristics and…

Brandon Eddy, Ph.D., (Couple and Family Therapy) recently presented at the International Family Therapy Association Conference in Bergen, Norway. He presented with a former graduate of the UNLV Couple and Family Therapy Program, Ashley Bloomberg.