Mayra Corn, Ruby Nugent, and Aidy Weeks (Libraries), along with colleagues Melanie Dixson and Niki Kirkpatrick at the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries, presented "POC in LIS Cohorts" at the 2021 People of Color in Library & Information Sciences Summit.     

Dr. Kenneth Izuora (Medicine) was invited to the editorial board of the journal Endocrine Practice, the official journal of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. 

Drs. Awad Javaid, Banveet Kaur Khetarpal, Aditi Singh, Jimmy Diep, and Chowdhury Ahsan (all Medicine) recently co-authored an abstract published in European Heart Journal: Cardiovascular Imaging titled "Clinical course and surgical outcomes in middle-age adults with anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery." This study retrospectively analyzed…

Dr. Deborah Kuhls, Laura K. Gryder, Dr. Kavita Batra, Merika Charupoom, Emily Carter, Ana Reyes, and Emily Strickler (all Medicine) implemented hands-on training in Statistics for Traffic Safety at the 2021 National Summer Transportation Institute to a cohort of advanced high school students interested in traffic systems and STEM.

Manoj Sharma, Jennifer Pharr, Courtney Coughenour (all Environmental & Occupational Health), Chia-Liang Dai (Teaching & Learning), Kavita Batra (Medicine), and Ching-Chen Chen (Counselor Education), along with Asma Awan (Purdue University), and Hannah Catalano (University of North Carolina Wilmington), published an article “Using the Multi…

Kenneth Izuora and Scott Lee (both Medicine) in collaboration with colleagues at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (Michael Jakoby, Vanessa Williams, Stacey Ward, and Michael Buhnerkempe) presented their research, “Glycemic Control is Not an Independent Predictor of Mortality or Length of Stay for Patients Hospitalized with…

Amalie Alver, Kavita Batra, Amrita Patel, and Kenneth Izuora (all Medicine) Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Antonina Capurro, Civon Gewelber, Kristin Baca, Shelley Williams, and Jeffrey Ebersole (all Dental) presented the results of their research collaboration, “Predictor of Food Insecurity among Ambulatory Patients with…

Manoj Sharma, Jason Flatt (both Environmental & Occupational Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine), published an article, “Testing the Multi-theory Model (MTM) to Predict the Use of New Technology for Social Connectedness in the COVID-19 Pandemic” in the journal, Healthcare. The article tackles the public health issue of social isolation that…

Dr. Kavita Batra (Medicine) was invited as a lead speaker to present "Nuts and Bolts of the Research and Statistical Analysis" in an International E-Conference on Innovation and Practices of Modern Sports Science and Traditional Yoga (endorsed by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India) organized by the Physical…

Drs. Elissa Palmer and Dr. James Alexander (both Medicine) worked together to obtain a $2.9 million Health Resources and Services Administration training grant for UNLV Medicine's department of family medicine. The grant will be used to enhance family medicine education in maternity care and obstetrics training for resident physicians in Las…

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV will begin creating a Division of Rheumatology, thanks to a generous donation from the Engelstad Foundation. The donation will be used to hire and train rheumatologists, helping combat a severe shortage of the specialists in Southern Nevada. Rheumatologists typically treat arthritis…

Micajah Daniels, Manoj Sharma (both Environmental & Occupational Health), and Kavita Batra (Medicine) published a commentary, "Social Media, Stress and Sleep Deprivation: A Triple “S” among Adolescents" in the Journal of Health and Social Sciences. The commentary discuss the impact of social media on youth development and implications for…