Accomplishments: Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV
Terrence Sanvictores (Medicine) published an original case report with Johnson Ukken (Medicine) on a rare presentation of hemidiaphragmatic segmental zoster paresis in the Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases.
Sanvictores T, Ukken J. Hemidiaphragmatic segmental zoster paresis. AIMClinicalCases. 2026;5:e250824. doi:10.7326/aimcc.2025.0824
David Basulto; Jacqueline Gamboa; Guadalupe Vazquez-Perez; Vidhani Goel;Roberto Sagaribay; Jyoti Desai; and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) published a study "Educational Interventions for Labor Epidural Awareness in the United States: Protocol for a Scoping Review" in JMIR Research Protocols. This scoping review aims to map the extent,…
Researchers from the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, including Dr. Deborah Kuhls (Medicine), published the following article on workplace violence in trauma centers:
Liepert A, Fallat M, Capella J, Fox A, Kuhls D, Galink G, Fischer P, Gates J, Toscano N, Kelley K, Chung S, Doucet J. Workplace violence in trauma centers is a…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored a manuscript titled “Application of the multi-theory model to improve self-reported determinants of appropriate antibiotic prescribing among veterinary students” with coauthors from Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bam University of Medical Sciences, University of…
Researchers from the CANE (Cognitive Aging & Neuropsychological Equity) Lab: Stacey Moeller (Clinical Psychology), Katie Singsank (Clinical Psychology), Grace Goodwin (Clinical Psychology), and Samantha John (Brain Health), along with collaborators, published a study in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled “Development and validation of the Persian childbearing intention questionnaire based on the Multi-Theory Model (MTM) among women with only one child” in the Journal of Research Development in Nursing and Midwifery (Impact factor 0.29) in association with…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled “Caregiver concerns about preschoolers’ overweight/obesity and undereating and their associations with feeding practices in China” in the journal Archives of Public Health (Impact factor 3.4) in association with coauthors from Chongqing Medical University…
Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with GBD 2023 TB HIV Collaborators, coauthored “Global, regional, and national burden of tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis by HIV status, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023” published in The Lancet.…
Abigail Cheng, Samrawit Misiker, Roberto Sagaribay, and Kavita Batra (all Medicine) published an abstract in the American Journal of Transplantation titled, "Underutilization of Horseshoe Kidney Donors Despite Comparable Quality: A National Analysis from the UNOS Registry (2007–2023)."
Using national United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)…
Ph.D. student Ravi Batra (Public Health) and Kavita Batra (Medicine) co-authored a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases titled, "Global, regional, and national burden of tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis by HIV status, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023."
The study reports that…
Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) coauthored an article titled “Perceived barriers for physical activity in overweight and obese youth: A scoping review” published in the journal Health Science Reports (Impact factor 2.9) with coauthors from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. The study found that environmental and…
Arpita Basu (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) published an original research article with Kenneth Izuora (Medicine) and colleagues on the role of healthy dietary patterns in inflammatory biomarkers that predict cardiovascular disease in adults with and without type 1 diabetes using data from the NIH funded Coronary Artery…